North Korea workers in Poland
One of the most popular daily newspapers in Poland Gazeta Wyborcza reported last week [1] about a company that hires North Korean welders in the Gdansk Shipyard. The article says that these workers work excessively long hours, are payed much less than Polish welders, don’t get their wage packets instead the money is sent back to North Korea and they are supervised by political activists. The newspaper described the practice as modern slavery and a gulag inside Poland. Ironically the North Koreans work in the birthplace of the famous Polish trade union Solidarnosc (Solidarity) and they are not hired directly by the Shipyard but through an intermediary company that cooperates with North Korean company Pyongyang General Construction Corp.
Update: in numerous follow-ups to the article some other newspapers have found faults with the Gazeta Wyborcza’s account and think that probably the whole matter was to some extent exaggerated.
