Guemhyuk Kim* can’t remember the last time he had a proper shower. When the North Korean worker was sent to Russia under Kim Jong Un’s overseas labour programme, he had not imagined living inside a shipping container in abject squalor.
He is one among at least 100,000 people in the North Korean dictator’s programme forced to live and work under abusive conditions, including restriction of movement, retention of identity documents, physical and sexual violence, and intimidation and threats, a new investigation has revealed.
