{"id":28891,"date":"2021-02-25T00:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/24\/north-korea-enslaves-prisoners-in-producing-coal-for-export-report-says"},"modified":"2021-02-25T00:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:43:34","slug":"north-korea-enslaves-prisoners-in-producing-coal-for-export-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28891","title":{"rendered":"North Korea enslaves prisoners in producing coal for export, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights group says pyramid-like scheme is directly linked to North\u2019s nuclear and missile programmes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> has been enslaving political prisoners, including children, in coal production to help boost exports and earn foreign currency as part of a system directly linked to its nuclear and missile programmes, a South Korea-based human rights group has said.<\/p>\n<p>The Seoul-based Citizens\u2019 Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) released a study analysing an intricate connection between North Korea\u2019s exploitation of its citizens, the production of goods for export, and its weapons programmes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/24\/north-korea-enslaves-prisoners-in-producing-coal-for-export-report-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights group says pyramid-like scheme is directly linked to North\u2019s nuclear and missile programmesNorth Korea has been enslaving political prisoners, including children, in coal production to help boost exports and earn foreign currency as part of a sy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28893,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28891\/revisions\/28893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}