NEW YORK (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it has sent labourers to work abroad legally in Russia, China and elsewhere and that it was a "vicious slander" to say they were mistreated or forced to go.
U.N. human rights investigator Marzuki Darusman last month raised concerns that North Korea (DPRK) has forced some 50,000 people to work abroad "under overall conditions that reportedly amount to forced labour." He urged countries where they have been sent to grant him access to investigate.
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