{"id":49707,"date":"2021-10-20T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49707"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:58:10","slug":"north-korea-plans-send-around-1000-workers-russia-loggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-plans-send-around-1000-workers-russia-loggers\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea plans to send around 1,000 workers to Russia as loggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faced with foreign exchange shortages, North Korean authorities reportedly plan to send a new batch of workers overseas. Pyongyang plans to send over 1,000 workers within the year, with authorities seemingly unconcerned with international sanctions on the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in Pyongyang on Tuesday, North Korean authorities are currently training the workers before their departure to Russia next month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities plan to send them in two or three batches, the first of which is scheduled to depart in early-to-mid November.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These workers will be sent to logging camps. Logging requires frozen ground, so authorities plan to complete the dispatch of the workers before the winter begins.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UN Security Council Resolution 2397, adopted in December 2017, called for the repatriation of all North Korean nationals earning income abroad by December 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, North Korean authorities have not been repatriating North Korean workers overseas since closing the nation\u2019s borders in January 2020, ostensibly due to COVID-19 concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Oct. 4, the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea released a report by an experts\u2019 panel that examined the enforcement of sanctions on North Korea during the six-month period between February and August and issued related recommendations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The panel said though North Korea had to repatriate all its workers overseas by Dec. 22, 2019, in line with the UN Security Council resolution, some remained overseas, earning foreign exchange in sectors such as IT.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47421\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-1024x358.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-768x269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-1536x537.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-2048x716.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-696x243.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-1068x374.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Russian_timber_truck_I-1201x420.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A timber truck in Russia. \/ Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the report said North Korea\u2019s border closure likely provides opportunities to North Korean workers overseas to extend their stays and continue earning foreign exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means that the North Korean authorities could be using the border closure to expand foreign currency earnings through its laborers overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, North Korean authorities reportedly sent new workers to Russia, Mongolia, and elsewhere in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-dispatch-10000-workers-russia-march\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first half of the year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, despite the protracted border closure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, North Korea <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-may-preparing-repatriate-some-workers-china\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">did select some workers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in China to repatriate as part of efforts to replace them, but none have returned to the country so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is to say, North Korea is essentially sending new workers without repatriating or replacing workers currently overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the authorities are actively exploiting workers sent overseas to secure foreign exchange, raising the percentage of their earnings they must pay to the ruling party in the name of \u201cloyalty funds\u201d by 30 to 55%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One defector who worked as a logger in Russia said the dispatch of over 1,000 people as loggers suggests the authorities intend to send what amounts to an &#8220;entire company&#8221; overseas. \u201cA considerable amount of foreign exchange will flow into the hands of the authorities, too,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ec%a0%84%ec%b2%b4%ea%b8%b0%ec%82%ac\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with foreign exchange shortages, North Korean authorities reportedly plan to send a new batch of workers overseas. 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