EU 'funding Kim Jong-Un's nuclear weapons' as North Korean workers in forced Europe labour

NORTH Koreans working in the European Union are having their salaries sent back to dictator Kim Jong-Un raising fears the bloc is funding his deadly nuclear weapons programme.

EU money is funding Polish shipbuilders who are paying North Korean labourers

Poland is one of two countries in the EU, including Malta, which accepts North Korean workers, who are being sent there by a company owned by the North Korean Workers’ Party, which brutal leader Kim is chairman of.

The former Communist European country has a deal with North Korean state-owned Rungrado Trading which sends over workers who are kept in terrible conditions without receiving any pay, shocking footage shot by Vice magazine reveals.

Polish authorities say the North Koreans, who work in ship-building - including companies who make NATO ships - agriculture and construction, are paid monthly with cash in hand. 

But workers claim the money goes straight to the North Korean company, which they are not allowed to know the name of, and receive their salary - with deductions - when they are allowed to go back home after two and half years to see their family before they return to Poland for three years.

Over the past few years more than €70million in EU funding has been given to two of the shipbuilding companies allegedly hiring North Koreans under the deal.

But shockingly, the EU claims to have no knowledge of member countries employing North Koreans.

North Koreans are working in shipbuilding, agriculture and construction in Poland

Since 2011 Poland has issued 1,972 work visas to North Koreans, but Polish authorities admitted they have to rely on their IT systems for numbers, which are not reliable as staff “mix up North and South Koreans”.

Many of the labourers interviewed said they have no idea how much they earn, if anything.

One worker, said: “We don’t know our hourly rate or how much we get. 

“The costs of clothing and use of facilities are deducted.

“We do not receive cash, the company looks after it and we will get it when we get back to Korea.

“If we had the cash we could lose it and we don’t need any money on the way to and from work.”

North Korea last released pictures of alleged missile tests in April

Dictator Kim Jong-un sends his citizens to work in Poland and their earnings are sent back to him

The UN has said there are 50,000 North Koreans in forced labour around the world, mostly in Russia and Qatar, who are contributing $2bn to the North Korean economy which struggles to earn money within the state due to international sanctions.

Remco Breuker, professor of Korean studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said: “North Korea is the world’s largest illegal job agency. 

“There is no worker in the North Korean state, there is North Korea or Pyongyang Inc, it’s a company.”

Questions have been raised as to why the North Koreans shipped over to Poland to work do not escape and claim asylum.

But most have been brainwashed by the state and are kept under supervision while they work 12 hours a day, six days a week, and go straight to a secure compound where they live after work.

Their families are also sent to a camp in North Korea while they work in Poland and they are refused any contact with them.

(Source : express.co.uk)

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