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Report: North Korea that has worked POWs from the South and their descendants for decades
A South Korean organization said tens of thousands of prisoners who were not returned after the 1953 armistice were exploited as forced laborers in the mines, and that a similar fate awaited their children and grandchildren.
"There is no recognition and no interest in the government"
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Thursday, 25 February 2021, 14:04
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North Korea has used prisoners of war from the South and their descendants as forced laborers in coal mines, a South Korean human rights organization said today (Thursday).
According to the NKHR organization, tens of thousands of prisoners were never returned after the end of the Korean War in 1953, but were exploited under slavery conditions to work in the communist state's extensive mining system.
Their children and grandchildren suffered a similar fate.
The North Korean regime classifies its citizens by class affiliation, using a method known as "Songbon."
According to the system, there are three types of citizens: "loyal", "hesitant" and "hostile".
According to the NKHR report, the affiliation is inherited, and the descendants of the forced laborers were destined for work in coal, lead, zinc and other mineral mines.
"They are completely prevented from changing their place of residence or work, or acquiring higher education," said a Seoul-based organization.
Pyongyang returned only 8,343 South Korean prisoners of war, although the Geneva Convention requires the release of all prisoners at the end of a military conflict.
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A 2014 UN report stated that at least 50,000 POWs from the south remained in the north after the war, and that about 500 of them were still alive. Korean issue. According to her, the issue was not raised summits held in recent years between the North leader Kim Jong Un with President of South Zhejiang no moon and former US President Donald Trump.
Pyongyang denies that it is responsible for severe human rights violations, and argues that all the prisoners were returned under the terms of the armistice. a police source has said that those who remained did so out of a desire "to remain in the bosom of the republic."
despite international sanctions, north Korea continues to export coal illegally. in the annual report of the UN inspectors stated that she earned it hundreds Millions of dollars in 2019.
"Historically, it goes to the state's banned nuclear and missile programs."
Experts say satellite images show North Korea continues to produce coal, amid severe energy shortages.
The economic situation in the country has drastically worsened in the past year following the Corona plague, which forced it to close its border with China, its main ally.
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