February 23, 2015
Under NKSEA, transactions in N. Korean slave labor would be punishable by prison time
Yet again, a news story is reporting that North Korea is sending workers abroad to toil in conditions tantamount to slavery: When the North Korean carpenter was offered a job in Kuwait in 1996, he leapt at the chance. He was promised $120 a month, an unimaginable wage for most workers in his famine-stricken country, where most people are not allowed to travel abroad. But for Rim Il, the deal soured from the start: Under a moonlit night, the bus carrying him and...