North Korean 'Serfs' Working for Russia, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

From: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia) | Date: August 14, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Valeria Korchagina
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
08-14-2001
Some 10,000 North Koreans are working in Russia under the supervision of
their country's security forces and without legal protection, making them
essentially serfs, various state and regional officials from across the
country admitted this week.
"I am afraid they are treated completely arbitrarily," a Labor and
Social Development Ministry official said Thursday. "Nobody is monitoring
the situation."
Last week an Economic Development and Trade Ministry official told The
St. Petersburg Times that Pyongyang is continuing its Soviet-era ...

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