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Saturday 25 May 2013, 06:27:47

Labour news stories from North Korea

Fear Prevails Over Greed: The Kaesong Shutdown [38 North] 2013-05-23

Pyongyang demands Seoul clarify its stance on Kaesong complex's future [Yonhap] 2013-05-20

KIC Life Receding as Workers Withdrawn [DailyNK] 2013-05-10

N.Korea Wants to Send Hundreds of Workers to China [Chosun Ilbo] 2013-05-10

Kaeseong Industrial Complex... (updated) [CINA] 2013-05-09

Kaesong Workers Sent Far and Wide [DailyNK] 2013-05-06

Last South Koreans leave the Kaesong complex [Hankyoreh] 2013-05-05

Last S. Koreans return from Kaesong complex [K. Times] 2013-05-03

Why is N. Korea still keeping 7 S. Korean workers at Kaesong? [Hankyoreh] 2013-05-02

Kaesong Workers Given New Assignments [Radio Free Asia] 2013-05-01

S. Korea to pull workers from Gaeseong [Korea Herald] 2013-04-26

Seoul gives N. Korea ultimatum on Gaeseong complex [K. Times] 2013-04-25

Farm workers skeptical of reforms to collective farm policy [Radio Free Asia] 2013-04-25

Trade unionists demonstrate in solidarity with North Korea [NTUF] 2013-04-19

Kaesong Move Threatens 200,000 [DailyNK] 2013-04-10

North Withdraws Kaesong Workers [DailyNK] 2013-04-08

N.K. halts Gaeseong operations, says will withdraw its workers [K. Herald] 2013-04-08

Production at Kaesong Complex could drop by half next week [Hankyoreh] 2013-04-07

Workers in factory zone stay despite risk, need jobs [Reuters] 2013-04-04

North Threatens to Withdraw Workers [DailyNK] 2013-04-04

P'yang threatens to pull out its workers from Kaesong park [Yonhap] 2013-04-04

Military Drills Put Industry in Crisis [DailyNK] 2013-03-19

Export of labor to Middle East, Africa on modest rise [Yonhap] 2013-03-09

Five North Korean workers found dead in Russia [AFP] 2013-02-21

NK nuke could first affect Kaesong Industrial Complex [Hankyoreh] 2013-02-12

Pyongyang Threatens to Shut Kaesong Industrial Complex [Chosun Ilbo] 2013-02-08

Flash Holiday in Kaesong Threatening Relations [DailyNK] 2013-01-04

'The dear respected Kim Jong Un made a New Year address' [CINA] 2013-01-02

China imports North Koreans to beat rising wages [The Times of India] 2012-11-22

Purist Pyongyang purges Marx [Asia Times] 2012-11-19

Pyeongyang on the path to economic and social reforms? [CINA] 2012-10-21

Chinese Pull Out of N.Korean Mine [Chosun Ilbo] 2012-10-18

4,000 N. Koreans working in Kuwait [Korea Times] 2012-10-15

North Korea in development crisis [Asia Times] 2012-10-10

Workers at Gaeseong Industrial Complex Paid $128 Per Month [Arirang News] 2012-10-10

NK Surprise as Economic Changes Disappear [DailyNK] 2012-10-09

Regime Fleeces Overseas Workers [Chosun Ilbo] 2012-09-27

N. Korea Has Begun To Change – With Almost Alarming Speed [NKnews] 2012-09-22

A Famine Caused by Exploitation and Inequality in a Jungle Where Death and Crime Run Rampant [Kyunghyang Shinmun] 2012-09-19

Unable to hire North Koreans, South Korean businesses shutting down [The Hankyoreh] 2012-09-17

Choco Pies fuel productivity at Gaeseong [K. Times] 2012-09-17

China adjusts to influx of cheap North Korean labor [Hankyoreh] 2012-09-13

How unpaid North Korean labour helped Russia welcome the world [Globe and Mail] 2012-09-12

North Korean workers welcome here [Global Times] 2012-09-03

Magazine suggests first wage hike in a decade [Korea Times] 2012-08-22

N.Korean Workers Go AWOL in China [Chosun Ilbo] 2012-08-21

Pick berries or pay fines [RFA] 2012-08-16

Kaesong Monthly Wages Rise by 5% [DailyNK] 2012-08-06

Is China-style reform afoot in NK? [Korea Times] 2012-07-27

Coercion, control, surveillance and punishment... [NK Economy Watch] 2012-07-21

'North Korea Today' (July 11, 2012) [Good Friends] 2012-07-21

DPRK loggers in Russia: economic data [North Korean Economy Watch] 2012-07-09

New East German and Soviet Evidence on North Korean Support to South Korean Political Parties and Labor Unions [Wilson Center] 2012-07-09

China works on importing North Korean workers [Marketplace] 2012-07-09

China opens doors to North Korean workers [Brisbane Times] 2012-07-02

Workers Face Fierce Fight for China Role [DailyNK] 2012-06-29

Pyongyang exploits N. Korean loggers in Russia [Asahi Shimbun] 2012-06-25

N. Korean overseas workers forfeit up to 90% of pay: report [Korea Times] 2012-06-25

N. Korean overseas workers forfeit up to 90 pct of pay [Yonhap] 2012-06-24

U.S. Names N. Korea One of Worst Countries of Human Trafficking [Arirang News] 2012-06-24

US criticizes N. Korea's forced labor [Korea Times] 2012-06-24

China to Employ Another 20,000 N.Korean Workers [Chosun Ilbo] 2012-06-22

US lists NK as worst forced labor state [K. Times] 2012-06-22

North Korea under growing pressure over human rights [K. Herald] 2012-06-19

North Korea: Economic System Built on Forced Labor [Human Rights Watch] 2012-06-13

North Korea's prison camps turn even more brutal [Korea Times] 2012-06-04

Defectors Cast New Light on Prison Camps [WSJ] 2012-06-03

'North Korea Today' (May 23, 2012) [Good Friends] 2012-06-02

Defectors describe horror, heartbreak in North Korea's labor camps [CNN] 2012-05-30

China Gives Work Visas for 20,000 N.Koreans [Chosun Ilbo] 2012-05-29

Amnesty report: 200,000 prisoners in Kim's Gulag [Amnesty International] 2012-05-25

Amnesty Details Human Rights Abuses in N.Korea [Chosun Ilbo] 2012-05-25

Amnesty International: 200,000 held in labour camps [Korea Times] 2012-05-25

Antiimperialistische Ahnungslosigkeit: Über Gewerkschaften und Diktatoren [Jungle World] 2012-05-23

Farming Regions in State of Tension [DailyNK] 2012-05-16

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp [Guardian] 2012-05-13

The Casual Horrors of Life in a North Korean Hell [NYT] 2012-05-13

South Korean report details alleged abuses at North Korea’s prison camps [Washington Post] 2012-05-10

North Korea’s exploitation of its own workers in EU member states [HRWF International] 2012-05-10

North Korea redefines 'minimum' wage [Asia Times] 2012-05-09

Workers’ Orgs to Hold Conferences in May and June [North Korea Leadership Watch] 2012-05-04

Labour camps house the desperate, not dissidents, says new report [AFP] 2012-05-03

May Day marked by state officials at cement factory [KCNA] 2012-05-03

Kim Jong Un Visits Factories to Congratulate Workers on May Day [KCNA] 2012-05-03

Why are unions silent? [Solidarity] 2012-05-03

North Koreans Meet Chinese Demand For Cheap Labor - Report [Forbes] 2012-04-30

'Cheap, Obedient' Korean Workers [The Economic Observer] 2012-04-29

More N.Korean Workers to Earn Valuta for Kim Jong-un [The Chosun Ilbo] 2012-04-29

N. Korea to send 10,000 workers overseas to earn hard currency: report [The Mainichi] 2012-04-29

Trade union chairman pledges workers would join army to crush S Korean govt [NK News] 2012-04-27

'Cheap, Obedient' and Working in China [Daily NK] 2012-04-27

Catastrophic human rights record overshadows ‘Day of the Sun’ [Amnesty International] 2012-04-12

Report sheds fresh light on North Korean gulag [BBC] 2012-04-10