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EU countries employ slave laborers from North Korea, rights group reveals
EurActiv ^ | Jul. 6, 2016 1:56 (updated: 2:08) | (EurActiv.com with agencies)

Posted on 07/06/2016 1:42:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai

North Korea has sent hundreds of workers to labor as “state-sponsored slaves” in member states as Pyongyang seeks to circumvent international sanctions aimed at starving it of money over its nuclear weapons program, rights campaigners said on Wednesday (5 July).

North Korean laborers commonly work 10-12 hour shifts, six days a week, but up to 90% of their pay is sent back to the hermit state, according to the European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea (EAHRNK).

Most are working in Polish shipyards, construction sites and farms. North Koreans are also employed in leisure and clothing firms in Malta, and have worked in other EU countries, it said.

A recent article in The Telegraph revealed that slave laborers from North Korea work in some cases in companies receiving financial support from the European Union. The UN estimates that North Korea earns as much as £1.6 billion a year from laborers it sends overseas. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: europe; europeanunion; eussr; korea; northkorea; slavelabor; slavery

1 posted on 07/06/2016 1:42:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

POLAND? POLAND?

Juvenile jokes aside, I thought the Poles were smarter than this.


2 posted on 07/06/2016 1:43:34 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I thought Poles were smarter than this

Their leaders must have caught that spreading disease that will destroy civilization if it isn't stopped, then wiped off the planet. That would be Elite Globalist Greed.

3 posted on 07/06/2016 1:56:19 AM PDT by grania
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To: grania

Bring Back Lech.


4 posted on 07/06/2016 4:38:28 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Olog-hai

let me get this straight:

first polish workers go off to Britain to earn high wages.

then North Korean slaves come into Poland.

do I have that right?

that would make North Korea into a Workers Paradise where nobody works..?


5 posted on 07/06/2016 5:45:07 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Olog-hai

I hope this will be stopped?


6 posted on 07/06/2016 7:05:30 AM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Olog-hai

They must chain these people at work so they do not escape.


7 posted on 07/06/2016 10:44:28 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: miss marmelstein
What, the guy who recently said that Germany must lead Europe after Britain leaves the EU?
8 posted on 07/06/2016 1:05:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: All
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her (Babylon); for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: / The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, / And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

— Revelation 18:11-13
If they are getting an early start with just abjects from North Korea, imagine how much bigger their appetite will get once they get their own military.
9 posted on 07/06/2016 1:15:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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