North Korean workers subjected to 'slave-like' conditions in Russia

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  You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

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  We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 12th of August.

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  North Koreans sent to Russia to fill labour shortages caused by the war in Ukraine have described slave-like conditions.

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  The US and China have agreed another 90-day pause in their tariff war.

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  And Pakistan says it's killed 50 militants along the border with Afghanistan.

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  Also in the podcast, why are unemployed young adults in China pretending to have jobs?

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  And...

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  It was described as a massive and unpredictable invasion and effectively systems immediately started to signal a very serious fault.

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  How a swarm of jellyfish managed to shut down a French nuclear plant.

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  When he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022,

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  Vladimir Putin hoped to take Kiev in just three days.

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  But three and a half years on, the war continues,

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  and Russia's economy is suffering from a manpower shortage.

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  With an estimated one million troop casualties,

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  many workers have been recruited into the war effort.

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  So just as he's relied on North Korea for ammunition and then soldiers,

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  President Putin has now turned to North Korea to fill gaps in the labour force.

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  Our South Korea correspondent, Jean McKenzie,

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  has spoken to six workers who've managed to escape and heard how they were subjected to slave-like conditions in Russia.

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