North Korea believed to earn a fortune from forced labor overseas, U.N. says

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NORTH- KOREA   –   North Korea’s catalog of abuses against its own people within the secretive country’s tightly controlled borders has been widely reported. But Kim Jong Un’s regime is also believed to be pocketing huge sums from tens of thousands of its citizens who are sent abroad to toil in forced labor conditions, the United Nations says.

The laborers are made to work as long as 20 hours a day without enough food and under constant surveillance, according to a new report from Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special reporter on human rights in North Korea.(CNN.COM/photo:cnn.com)…[+]