BREAKING NEWS: N. Korea Deploys over 100,000 Workers Overseas, Earns $800 Mil. in 2025
The monitoring team said nearly all wages are seized by Pyongyang, with 17 countries suspected of hosting laborers despite U.N. repatriation rules.
- On Wednesday, the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team released a report showing North Korea maintains around 100,000 workers abroad, generating between $450 million and $800 million in 2025 for nuclear weapons programs.
- Despite the 2019 repatriation deadline mandated by UNSCR 2397, North Korea continues deploying workers primarily to China and Russia, with an estimated 35,600 to 101,280 individuals remaining stationed abroad.
- Russia created a 'student visa' scheme to "camouflage" North Korean workers manufacturing military drones, while laborers forfeit 80-90 percent of earnings to the regime.
- Lara Strangways, director of human rights foundation Global Rights Compliance, called the report "alarming," citing workers channeled through brokers into systems of debt bondage and surveillance.
- The MSMT urges United Nations member states to hold responsible parties accountable for UNSCR violations and calls on the Security Council to reestablish the Panel of Experts.
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North Korea accused of using overseas workers finance nuclear weapons
Tens of thousands of North Korean labourers working in Russia and China reportedly raised as much as $US800 million last year for Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons program, helping Pyongyang evade UN sanctions.
A report reveals that North Korea has sent up to 100,000 laborers abroad, mostly to China and Russia. Some work in military drone factories in Russia, generating up to 25.8 billion baht in revenue by 2025.
Up to 100,000 NK workers sent abroad, some involved in Russian drone production: report
North Korea has sent around 100,000 workers abroad, mostly to China and Russia, with some involved in manufacturing military drones at Russian factories in violation of U.N. sanctions, an international monitoring report showed Wednesday. The latest report by the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) showed that North Korea continues to deploy workers overseas despite a U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolution requiring U.N. member countri…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Min Seon-hee = It has been found that North Korea is dispatching workers to a Russian drone factory to produce military drones for Russia.
The Multinational Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT), which monitors North Korea's violations of UN Security Council resolutions, stated that up to 101,280 North Korean workers are dispatched overseas and earned up to $800 million (approximately 1.07 trillion won) in revenue last year. The dispatch of personnel to Russia, including to drone factories, is increasing significantly.
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