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Korean workers repatriated from Russia for failing to meet quotas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately ten North Korean construction workers in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, were recently repatriated for failing to meet state-mandated financial quotas.<\/p>\n<p>A Daily NK source, speaking on condition of anonymity, reported that these workers were &#8220;sent back to North Korea early this month after being branded bad eggs for failing to deliver their state cash quotas for the first half of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The source revealed that the External Construction Guidance Bureau ordered in mid-July the &#8220;immediate repatriation of workers who failed to achieve state quotas for the last six months,&#8221; resulting in the workers&#8217; return in early August.<\/p>\n<p>An employee of a North Korean construction company in Nizhny Novgorod stated that the returnees &#8220;are not being treated as ideologically problematic, but they will be criticized when they return to the North and will have a tough time going overseas again.&#8221; The order was seen as &#8220;a warning to individuals, workplaces and entire companies that chronically fail to meet their quotas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The source attributed the workers&#8217; failure to meet quotas partly to economic stagnation caused by the Russia-Ukraine war and restrictive North Korean policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The COVID-19 pandemic and war hit the construction industry hard, with work for North Korean construction companies falling a lot this year compared to last year,&#8221; the source explained. &#8220;For North Korean construction companies to make money, they must sign subcontracts with various construction agents regardless of nationality, be it Russians, ethnic Koreans from the former Soviet Union, or South Koreans. 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For security reasons, their identities remain anonymous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20240813-1\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately ten North Korean construction workers in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, were recently repatriated for failing to meet state-mandated financial quotas. 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