Tag: overseas workers
N. Korea’s failed whistleblower system: Informants left unprotected
North Korea's Public Reporting System Law encourages overseas workers to report their colleagues' illegal activities, but the system has proven ineffective due to inadequate...
N. Korea launches major crackdown on Chinese phones along border
North Korean authorities have initiated a major crackdown on Chinese phone users in North Hamgyong province, deploying state security teams to Hoeryong to enforce...
North Korea ships 150 workers through Hyesan to jobs in China
North Korea has dispatched more than 150 workers through Hyesan customs to various industries in China. The workers, who arrived in Jilin province last...
Investigation: North Korea extends three repressive laws to workers abroad
North Korea is strictly enforcing three recently enacted laws on its citizens working abroad: the Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Law, the Youth Education...
Pyongyang escalates crackdown on overseas communication
North Korean authorities have intensified their crackdown on cross-border communications, threatening residents in border regions with reeducation camp sentences for any overseas phone calls....
North Korea to ramp up overseas worker program to Russia, China
North Korea is planning to send a significant number of its citizens to work overseas, particularly in Russia and China. This initiative follows orders...
Liquor talks: Pyongyang firm haggles with China for modern brew tech
Pyongyang's Taedonggang Foodstuff Trading Company is negotiating with Chinese companies to import modern purification and processing equipment, according to a source in the city...
Elderly North Koreans toil in Russian city
About 70 North Korean workers, most of them over the age of 60, have been sent to the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk in the...
North Korea demands $70 from workers in Russia for flood aid
North Korea is demanding foreign currency from its overseas workers to fund flood recovery, despite earlier rejecting international aid in favor of "self-reliance," Daily...
Stitching for cash: North Korea exports garment workers to China
North Korea has begun sending skilled garment workers to China in a bid to boost foreign currency earnings, with plans to expand the program...
