North Koreans send BBC to work like a Russian “slave”

The thousands of Russians in North Korea are sending to work in conditions similar to Russian slaves to fulfill the tremendous shortage of continuous invasion of Ukraine, BBC has learned.

Moscow repeatedly hit Pyongyang to help fight war, using his missiles, artillery shells and his soldiers.

Now, they were struggling with many Russian men or fighting, or after the country escaping – South Korean intelligence officials told BBC is more and more Moskuk is based on North Korean labor.

Since the beginning of the war, we interviewed six people who escaped from Russia, who help rescue government officials, researchers and staff.

The “Abyssmal” working conditions were determined how men are subject to men, and the North Korean authorities are tightening control over employees.

One of the workers, Jin said he landed in Russia’s Far East, which he would start from the airport to a construction site by a North Korean security agent to talk to anyone or to look at anything.

“The outside world is our enemy,” the agent told him. It was placed directly to work directly to build blocks of apartment over 18 hours a day, he said.

We described the same working days we talked about all six employees.

We changed the names to protect them.

“Waking up was frightening, realizing that you should repeat again on the same day,” said another building worker who had managed to escape Russia last year. The TAE remembered how he would catch hands in the morning, it cannot be opened, stopped from the previous day’s work.

“Some people would leave to sleep on the day, or to stand asleep, but supervisors were found and supervised. He said we were really dying,” said another, Chan.

“The conditions are really abysignificy,” Kang Dong-Wan, Professor of South Korea, has traveled to Russia to interview North Korean farmers.

“Staff suffer from very dangerous situations. The lights are turned on and work in the dark, with few safety equipment”.

Escape to tell us that employees are limited to their construction sites by day and night, where the North Korean state safety department agents see. Shipment in bowls, flooded in bowls, or sleeping on the floor of unfinished apartment blocks, pulling the doors with photogrammatically to try to keep it cold.

A nam, Nam, said that he fell four meters away from the site of his building and the face he “broke”, unable to work. Then his supervisors would not leave the site to visit a hospital.

In the past, thousands of thousands of people earned millions of pounds in the North Korean leader, Kim Jong UN and its money covered regime. In 2019, the UN banned these staff to cut Kim’s funds and build nuclear weapons, most of them were sent home.

But last year, more than 10,000 farmers were sent to Russia, according to an official intelligence of South Korea, talking to BBC about the state of anonymity. We were told that this year he was also expected, Pyongyang sent more than 50,000 employees.

Sudden flowers are now “Russian” everywhere “, while he added to the official-scale construction projects, others were assigned to computing clothing plants and banning the use of the UN Korean work in violation of North Korean work.

Russian government figures are shown In 2024 more than 13,000 northern Koreans entered 2024, an increase of 12 times the previous year. There were almost 8,000 students visas, but according to official intelligence and experts, Russia uses the tactic that uses the ban on the UN.

In June, SERGEI Shoigu was first accepted by the Russian major Russian authority, who would send to Rebuild Kursk, Kursk last year, but has been promoted since Ukrainian.

The South Korean official told us that some North Koreans would open soon to work on projects to reconstruct the Russians in Ukrainian territories.

“Russia has a serious shortage of work right now and offers the perfect solution to North Korea.” He said a well-known teacher and expert in Kookmin University of Seoul Kokmin University.

These foreign construction works are very precious in North Korea, as they promise to pay better than work at home. Most employees hope to escape poverty and buy a business when you can buy or return home home. Only the most reliable men are selected with rigorously seen, and their families must leave behind.

But the greatest part of their gains is sent directly to the North Korean State as “loyalty fees”. The rest of the fraction – usually between $ 100-200 (£ 74 £ 149) a month – marked in a LEDger. They only receive money when employees return home – the last tactics, experts say to stop escaping.

After men carry out the reality of hard work and the reality of lack of wage, it can be broken. Tae said he said he was “embarrassed” when the other third of the Center of Asia’s construction workers were paying more than a third of the work. “I felt like I was at a work camp; a barless prison,” he said.

Jin farmer is still whitening when other staff remember how to call slaves. “You’re not just men, they are just machines that can speak,” they indicated. At one point, Jin’s director told him that he would receive money when he returned to North Korea, because the State needed instead. Then he decided to escape his life.

TAEK took the mistake after seeing youtube videos after the South Korean staff showed how much employees paid. One night, his things he knocked into a bowl, filled a blanket under the bed pages, as if he were asleep, and came out of his construction site. He complained a taxi and helped you to arrange thousands of miles to organize the journey of Seoul in the country.

In recent years, a small number of employees has escaped using the second-handed smartphones, saving the daily allowances of cigarettes and alcohols.

In an effort to avoid these escapes, many sources have told us that North Korean authorities are cracking in employees with limited freedom of employees.

According to the Prof of Dong-University, the regime has tried to control staff in the last year, as it is more frequent in ideological training and autocrievic training sessions, claiming the loyalty of Kim Jong and to record their failures.

There are also few options to leave construction sites. “Employees who came out once a month, but recently, these journeys have almost reduced to zero,” Prof Kang.

Kim Seung-Chul, Seoul-based activist, helps to rescue Russian North Korean workers, say that these exits were controlling more closely. “They had permission to leave in pairs, but since 2023 they had to travel in five groups and are controlled more controlled.”

In this climate, less employee is escaping. The South Korean government told us the number of North Koreans out of Russia every year and reached Seoul from 2022 – 20 years in 10 years.

Mr. Lankov, North Korean relationships in Russian, said cracks are likely to be prepared for a wide variety of employees.

“These employees will be the heritage of Kim and Putin’s wartime friendship,” he said that the worker will continue to arrive after the war ends, and after the suspension of soldiers and weapons.

Additional news of Jake Kwon and Hosu Lee