Two North Koreans Beaten to Death in Vladivostok
by Richardson ~ December 13th, 2006. Filed under: Russia. Below is an initial report from ITAR-TASS on the beating of three North Korean export slaves laborers:
The incident occurred on Sunday night in one of the city’s densely-populated districts known as “military road”. A group of young people attacked three Korean builders, inflicting heavy injuries on them. One of the victims died on Monday. The other two undergo a course of medical treatment at hospital.
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According to Korean diplomats’ information, the age of the builders who fell victim to the attack is from 30 to 40 years. They all are residents of Pyongyang. They worked in Vladivostok on legal grounds in one of building companies.
Since then another has died in the hospital, and an investigation has been launched:
Three North Korean nationals were severely beaten by unknown attackers in Vladivostok on Sunday evening, two of the victims later died at the hospital.
The assailants attacked the three North Korean men when they were walking along Voyennoye Shosse Street on December 10, a press statement from Primorye’s prosecutor’s office reported. . .
The prosecutors have launched an investigation into the case. The investigators believe the attack was motivated by racial hatred.
Officials of the North Korean Consulate General in the town of Nakhodka have been notified about the incident and are making the necessary arrangements to send the bodies of the two men back to North Korea, Ria Novosti news agency cited a representative of Russian Foreign Ministry in Vladivostok Igor Agafonov as saying.
December 13th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
unfortunately for these men’s families, their government doesn’t give a rat’s ass.
maybe they will demand some sort of reparation from Russia and keep it all themselves.
or even better, it was an inside job to blackmail Russia.
December 13th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
I spoke to Claudia Rosette years ago about the North Korean logging camp at an Institue for Hunane Studies seminar. If I recall, she went out there a long time ago to look at it when she was at the Asian Wall Street Journal. I can’t remember if she told me, or I read it elsewhere, but the workers there allegedly pay bribes to the DPRK managers who set the work list for these logging camps because they expect to be treated better and paid much more than back at home.
-NKeconWatch