North Korea subjects women to strip searches at border, sources say
North Korean authorities are reportedly forcing women leaving the country to remove all their clothing and, in some cases, submit to intimate searches in an...
Why is North Korea sending women to Russia?
I recently saw a report about an advertisement on an online marketplace offering to supply 40 North Korean female workers to a single workplace. According...
Companies in China prepare to employ more North Korean workers
Companies in China are reportedly preparing to employ North Korean workers. Firms in the Chinese border city of Dandong, across the Yalu River from the...
North Korean workers investigated for murder after China labor protest
Several North Korean workers have been repatriated and remain under investigation on possible murder charges after protests at an industrial complex in China erupted in...
A construction worker in Russia in the time of COVID
In Part 2 of his story, Kang, a North Korean laborer in Russia who escaped to South Korea at the end of 2022, recounts his...
A North Korean laborer in Russia tells his story
The author recently interviewed a North Korean defector who, despite UN sanctions which forbid North Korea dispatching laborers overseas, spent several years near St. Petersburg...