Posted on 08/10/2016 8:48:20 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea 'feeding workers crystal meth' to speed up skyscraper project
By James Rothwell
10 August 2016 • 10:42am
North Korean workers are being given a methamphetamine-based drug in the hope it will speed up a major construction project, according to reports.
Project managers in the city's capital of Pyongyang are said to be under so much pressure to finish the job on time that they have resorted to openly providing builders with the drug.
Nicknamed "ice," it is a form of the powerful stimulant methamphetamine, which is also known as crystal meth.
When snorted or inhaled, crystal meth gives users a sense of euphoria, increased energy levels and a suppressed appetite. The effects can last up to 12 hours.
Hundreds of thousands of North Korean citizens have been roped in to finish the project, which consists of a 70-floor skyscraper and more than 60 apartment blocks.
It was approved earlier this year by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in defiance of tough sanctions placed on the hermit state over its nuclear weapons tests.
“Project managers are now openly providing drugs to construction workers so that they will work faster,” a construction source in Pyongyang told Radio Free Asia.
"[They] are undergoing terrible sufferings in their work."
Human rights workers in Asia said the working conditions amounted to slave labour and urged the UN to take further action against Kim Jong-un.
Phil Robertson, Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said: “It’s going to be hard to verify that this is happening, but if it is confirmed then we utterly condemned it.
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Well I guess it’s OK then.
That could lead to worker burnout.
Oops, I reminded myself BEFORE not to go to Noth Korea...
A lot of the NK meth finds its way into Japan, The Phillipines and Taiwan. Also China and even into Europe - vie the M.E.
I wonder if Dental Care is also in their contract.../wiseass
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