North Korean workers employed on this construction site are very likely to send funds back to their families.
On a construction site near their shabby living quarters, a group of laborers building apartment blocks told CNN they are from North Korea. Working in conditions the US State Department calls "slave-like" labor, they are among an estimated 50,000 workers in Russia from the isolated state. US diplomats say up to 80% of their earnings are sent back to Pyongyang to help prop up the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Comment: The US State department would know all about "slave-like" labor conditions, there are enough of its client states providing them It is also disingenuous of them to suggest that the workers are sending most of their wages home to "prop up the regime". We see this behaviour all over the world e.g. Filipinos, Samoans, Pacific Islanders, Eastern Europeans, Mexicans, Arabs, Indians, Pakistanis - the list is endless. The thing they have in common is that they go to a foreign country to earn money to support their families, to provide a better standard of living than they can earn in their own country. But we are expected to believe that the North Korean workers are doing it to support the regime, and not their families. Such hypocrisy.
The United Nations has expressed concern that this money - totalling $500 million a year from North Korea's expatriate workers globally - helps to fund Kim's missile and nuclear programs.
Comment: Amazing hypocrisy from lefty immigrant, dreamer loving, CNN here. Bring all your shithole regime country immigrants to the USA, but shithole Russia is bad for employing shithole N. Koreans cause, 'regime'.