Press Coverage

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Media Appearances

• The Times - 'North Korean labourers lead ‘lives worse than cattle’ in Russia'
• The Times (Print Circulation) - 'Work 16-hour days for$10 a month'
• NBC News - 'Cockroaches, surveillance and 16-hour days: The life of a North Korean worker in Russia'
• The Independent - 'North Korean workers in Russia allowed only one shower a year and ‘treated worse than cattle’ 
• The Sun - 'Vlad's Slave Empire Horrors of Russia's $10-a-month North Korean slave workers who get one shower a year living in bug-riddled 'containers' 
• South China Morning Post - 'Rights group exposes North Korea's forced labour scheme that reaps US $500 million annually' 
• The Korea Herald - 'North Korean workers in Russia endure abuse, near-zero pay: report'
• The Irish Sun - 'VLAD'S SLAVE EMPIRE Horrors of Russia’s $10-a-month North Korean slave workers who get one shower a YEAR living in bug-riddled ‘containers’
• The Libération "It's worse than slavery": In Russia, thousands of North Koreans are being forced into a forced labor program'
• ABC National Radio - https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sundayextra/north-korean-workers-in-russia/106532380
• Voice of America - 북한 노동자 “여권 뺏기고, 15층 곤돌라에 매달려” 제재보다 시급한 것은?
• Deutsche Welle's 'Inside Europe' podcast:

(updated May 2026)