N Korean workers in China and Russia look set to defy sanctions

N Korean workers in China and Russia look set to defy sanctions Thousands of labourers must return home by Sunday under US-led measure to squeeze regime

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A U.N. deadline is forcing North Korea's global workers to go home. Some never will. The Washington Post

But Russia appears to be bypassing the United Nations by allowing workers to remain on tourist or student visas, immigration data suggests, while diplomats say Chinese state-owned companies continue to hire North Korean workers.

 A 2018 book by the Leiden Asia Center in the Netherlands called the system "forced labor on a global scale" and criticized the companies employing North Korean workers.