Chinese COVID Security 'Made by N.Korean Slave Labor'

South Korea, the U.K. and the U.S. imported personal protective devices from Chinese manufacturers who privately utilized North Korean servant labor, the Guardian reported on Nov.20

The daily said the North Korean laborers, who should all have actually been sent home at the end of in 2015 under UN sanctions, worked for 18 hours a day in squalid conditions resembling modern-day slavery.

It stated “numerous thousands of protective coveralls purchased for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have actually originated from factories utilizing North Korean labor” in the Chinese border city of Dandong. Italy, Japan, Myanmar, South Africa, and the Philippines likewise purchased the PPE.

North Korean employees commute to the Chinese border region of Yanbian, Jilin Province, in this file picture from Sept. 10, 2016.

“Sources indicate that the North Korean workers in PPE factories in Dandong have about 70 percent of their wages taken by the North Korean state,” it added.

Many fabric factories along the Yalu or Apnok River still use North Korean workers, though under UN Security Council resolutions they should all have actually been sent out house by the end of 2019.

The UN believes the North Korean program is requiring people to labor abroad under terrible conditions and the International Labor Union likewise implicates the impoverished state of modern-day slavery.

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