Posted on 11/03/2006 3:30:20 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Primorsky (AsiaNews) – The North Korean government is paying for oil imported from Russia by dispatching forced labour at zero cost since it has no other way to pay in goods or services. This was confirmed by the investigations of independent journalists, a professor of the Far Eastern Research Centre of Vladivostok and members of the Russian government.
According to statistics of the local administration of Primorsky city, Pyongyang’s oil imports increased from 62,000 dollars in 2001 to 4.4 million dollars last year.
An expert who lives in North Korea, anonymous for security reasons, said: “The city from where the oil is coming does not have its own energy resources. It exports oil to North Korea on behalf of the federal government of Moscow and in compensation receives labour instead of money due to North Korean incapability of making payments.”
Thus, the number of North Koreans who have received a “working visa” for Russia has increased, with more than 5,000 just over this past year. This openness is contrary to local government policy that restricted foreigners’ entry until 2002.
Asked about the matter, an official from the Russian municipality replied: “We have limited the number of labour permits for foreign workers as this means taking away employment from Russian workers.” The official said he did not know anything about the recent growth of the North Korean community because “the person in charge is away at the moment.”
Professor Larisha Jabrobskaja, of the Far Eastern Research Center in Vladivostok, said: “Pyongyang has been suffering from a chronic trade deficit since the 1990s. So it is sending its labour abroad in exchange for necessary materials like oil.”
Most North Koreans sent to Russia work as woodcutters but some have also managed to work in fields like construction, agricultural and marine industry. However, local Russians in Primorsky say they “are always disadvantaged and suffer discrimination when they search for jobs and lodging.”
Communism! Come, workers of the world! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
Unreal.
Czar Putin...
Another piece of Clinton legacy---with the aiding and abetting of Madeline Not-so-bright.
Bill Clinton- President of the USA:
The gift that keeps on giving.
Russia will probably say; "That's a good deal!"
Maybe like the Mexicans coming to the US. As bad as some think the border crossers are treated none want to go "home."
good for them, bartering is a good way to go
The North Korean government has only four sources of hard currency. They are Pachinko (no, I'm not kidding), counterfeiting U.S. currency, exporting ballistic missile technology, and illegal narcotics trafficking. The money situation is so desperate that NK diplomatic staff have been known to generate operating funds for their embassies through the illegal drug trade. They often bring the drugs into foreign countries in diplomatic pouches.
Free Vodka too.....no more kin chee but plenty of borscht.
Hey North Korean slaves may even gain a few pounds.
Communism doesn't work. Never has, never will. This doesn't surprise me that they would stoop so low.
At this rate North Korea will be a shoo-in for chairmanship of the U.N Commission on Human Rights.
The slaves should JUMP at the chance to leave the country!
Heck, we ought to try to get in on the deal so we can get more info on whats going on inside the borders of that hell hole! Everyone could win on this deal.
Kim the Elder traded labor to the East Germans in exchange for supplies of sodium cyanide. Sodium cyanide is used to extract gold from ore. It is an efficient process, but very dangerous. He sent the gold nuggets to banks in Europe. He didn't allow the nuggets to be melted into standard bars because he was afraid of theft by his own people! I have wondered many times about what happened to those laborers when the wall fell. Kantzler Merkel, who has a PhD in chemistry, probably knows, or could find out easily.
China holds approx one trillion worth of US debt. At approx yield of 5%, China extracts 50 billion from US Treasury each year. In time to come, if the greenback loses too much value, maybe China will accept "labor" for interest payments. Gotta go....don't wanna miss the big sale at WalMart.
I think you missed my point completely.
We should start massive air drops of arms all over the country.
Right......like some commie thug wants an armed citezenry. Uh-huh.
Please go to some website of your choice and read just how Sodium Cyanide (NaCn) is used to exact gold from its ore.
A very dilute NaCn solution in Water (H2O) disolves the gold from the ore into solution. This solution then is processed however Gold (Au) nuggets are not produced.
The process is NOT dangerous since the initial solution is
processed many times and at the end the remaining solution, held in holding pits, is degraded into essentially nothing by the sun's UV rays.
The process is used thru out the world and is the best for the environment for the aforementioned reasons.
Just what items Kim Ill the 1st sent to the USSR were not nuggets as commonly understood.
Goes to show just how bad things are in North Korea.
People go to gulags for holiday.
NK's going to work in Russia. Well, Russia and NK do have a common border. NK needs the money and Russia needs the workers. Sounds like a good trade.
And now: The American Predicament! Unemployment dropped to 4.4% today. 5.0% unemployed is usually considered 'full' employment, meaning that 5% of the people are unemployable, which means that .6% or a minimum of 600,000 people who aren't qualified to do anything ... are working at jobs, and getting paid!
They can't all be Postal Workers or BATF agents, so who-the-hell are they??
And, as an aside, all them illegal Mexicans got jobs too! So what's the answer? We obviously need more workers in the USA, so how do we get them?
Answer - Annex Mexico and rename it 'Texico'! And the bonus is that there's some oil there. Just some thoughts. Stay well, y'all..............FRegards
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