2024-03-26 15:10:17
Japan’s Sankei Shimbun reported on the 25th that riots are expanding as North Korean workers dispatched overseas are staging solidarity strikes one after another.
The newspaper reported that dozens of North Korean workers dispatched to a construction site in the African Republic of the Congo rioted in protest against the extension of their return home, which had been scheduled for February.
The National Intelligence Service also did not confirm the group action that occurred in the Congo, but said, “We are tracking related trends as various incidents and accidents due to the poor living conditions of North Korean overseas workers appear to be on the rise.”
Previously, in February, about 10 workers at a garment processing factory in Dandong, Liaoning Province, China, went on strike by refusing to go to work and demanding to return to their home country.
The delay in returning home due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) pandemic was due to the company’s failure to follow the government’s policy of “all people over 30 returning home.”
Sankei estimated that despite North Korea’s information control, rumors of the first large-scale riots appear to have been passed down by word of mouth among more than 100,000 workers dispatched overseas.
The first place where North Korean dispatched workers rioted was at a clothing manufacturing and seafood processing factory in Jilin Province, China.
Workers rose up last January when it was revealed that about four years’ worth of wages had been paid to North Korea in the name of ‘war preparation funds’. The unpaid wages amount to approximately $12 million (approximately 16.1 billion won).
The riot was so extreme that North Korean executives in the factory were taken hostage and Molotov cocktails were thrown to resist. The North Korean authorities attempted to calm the situation by refusing to pay four months’ worth of wages, while dispatching a large number of secret police to investigate factory executives and those who participated in the riot.
During the brutal investigation, which included torture, the factory’s North Korean representative was injured, and the deputy head of finance committed suicide out of fear of being punished.
In relation to this, the newspaper said that the North Korean authorities arrested about 200 people who led the initial riot and repatriated them to their home country, and that although the North Korean authorities are planning to punish them severely, there is a possibility that serial riots will occur in the future.
(Seoul = News 1)
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