North Korean migrant workers and the companies that dispatch them overseas still have a strong presence in Africa, despite UN sanctions prohibiting the export of North Korean labor past the last month of 2019. Equatorial Guinea said it has returned all North Korean workers in its interim report in March last year to comply with paragraph 8 of UN Security Council Resolution 2397, which says that North Korean workers must be repatriated before late December 2019. “Despite the coronavirus crisis, North Korean workers are risking their lives to earn foreign currency for the regime,” he added. According to the source, more than 2,000 North Korean workers have been dispatched to work in pro-North Korean developing countries with poor medical systems. The UN Security Council’s North Korea Sanctions Committee did not answer questions from RFA about its position on the remaining North Korean workers in Africa as of Thursday afternoon.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 09, 2020 20:48 UTC