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A March 2026 report by Global Rights Compliance documented all eleven ILO indicators of forced labor among North Korean workers at Russian construction sites, where an estimated 45,000 laborers work up to 16 hours a day and take home as little as $10 per month after mandatory state quotas. The program, which violates UN Security Council Resolution 2397, generates an estimated $500 million annually for Pyongyang while exploiting Russia's wartime labor shortage — and the number of workers has surged twelvefold since 2023.