North Korea’s Forced Labor Enterprise: A State-Sponsored Marketplace in Human Trafficking

North Korea’s Forced Labor Enterprise: A State-Sponsored Marketplace in Human Trafficking

North Korea’s Forced Labor Enterprise: A State-Sponsored Marketplace in Human Trafficking

Testimony of John Sifton, Asia Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch on North Korea’s State-Sponsored human trafficking business. It is a highly complex phenomenon and the issue of North Koreans being subjected to forced labor outside of their country is a timely topic of concern as the government forces its citizens to work in abusive environments outside the country and takes most of the the compensation produced from this labor.