{"id":60921,"date":"2024-08-27T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T06:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=60921"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:02:26","slug":"north-korea-demands-70-usd-workers-russia-flood-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-demands-70-usd-workers-russia-flood-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea demands $70 from workers in Russia for flood aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">North Korea is demanding foreign currency from its overseas workers to fund flood recovery, despite earlier rejecting international aid in favor of &#8220;self-reliance,&#8221; Daily NK has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">Speaking anonymously, a Daily NK source in Russia said recently that the North Korean authorities tasked all trading companies operating in Russia with sending $70 in cash per worker by the end of the month for flood recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">The North Korean entities that received the order are trading companies in name only. In fact, they are human resource management companies that control hundreds or thousands of North Korean construction workers affiliated with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">North Korean construction workers in Russia can broadly be divided into civilian workers and military workers. The latest order demanding cash reportedly applies to all companies managing civilian or military workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">While the monthly salary of a civilian construction worker differs according to rank and workload, it is usually between $200 and $300 on average. Military workers receive minimal wages since they work on construction sites in Russia instead of serving their mandatory army service, but they still receive about $100 a month on average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">Russia pays the North Korean workers $2,000 a month, but party fees, Socialist Patriotic Youth League dues and other costs are automatically deducted, while the trading companies that manage the workers extort them for over $1,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">If they have to pay even what the party is asking for in the name of flood recovery costs, military construction workers will take home just $30 this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">Over 40,000 North Korean workers are estimated to be working in Russia. If all of them paid the authorities $70, Pyongyang would raise $2.8 million this month.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Some workers in Russia criticize government demand<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">Among themselves, North Korean workers in Russia sharply criticize the state &#8220;for trying to earn foreign exchange while claiming it&#8217;s just gathering funds needed for flood recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">According to the source, one worker angrily complained, &#8220;They use the money I pay every month somewhere, and now they&#8217;re extorting more money by adding the excuse of flood recovery costs? I don&#8217;t make much to start, so I&#8217;m basically working all day long and not receiving a single penny for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">Another laborer criticized the government&#8217;s refusal of international aid, saying, &#8220;They said they would recover from the flood through self-reliance, but in the end, they&#8217;re extorting workers abroad like us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">In fact, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told displaced residents of Uiju County, North Pyongan province, during a visit to the flood zone on Aug. 8 and 9 that although several nations and international organizations had offered humanitarian aid, &#8220;what we regard as the best in all realms and processes of state affairs is the firm trust in the people and the way of tackling problems thoroughly based on self-reliance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">The North Korean authorities have instead been demanding money for flood recovery efforts from North Koreans living at home and overseas. In the case of North Pyongan province, locals were made to pay 20,000 to 30,000 won a person early this month to deliver to flood zones. In Jagang Province, people were asked for 10,000 won in cash, 3 kilograms of rice and three kilograms of corn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. 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\/20240822-5\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is demanding foreign currency from its overseas workers to fund flood recovery, despite earlier rejecting international aid in favor of &#8220;self-reliance,&#8221; Daily NK has learned. 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