In December, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution requiring all countries to expel North Korean workers within two years. Poland sent soldiers to fight alongside Americans in Iraq, but is nonetheless one of the few countries still hosting North Korean workers over Washington’s objections. Nine responded, reporting that they had given 124 new permits to North Koreans in 2007, and 253 the previous year. Soon afterward, Ms. Kowalska said, she stopped hiring North Korean workers “because it became such a sensitive issue.” She added that she was now retired and no longer managed North Korean workers. “Our girls lived as if they were in prison,” said Kim Tae-san, a North Korean defector who worked in the Czech Republic from 2000 to 2002 supervising 200 young North Korean women in a shoe factory.

Source: New York Times December 31, 2017 14:48 UTC