From: The Daily North Korea

The $57 sent by South Korean enterprises for each individual worker somehow falls into the hands of North Korean authorities. For this reason, some argue that South Korean businesses should develop a system to stop the exploitation of North Korean workers by paying workers directly.

Workers sent overseas are no different. Defector, Kim Tae San who was once the owner of a shoe factory in Czechoslovakia said, “North Korea laborers working in the Czech shoe factoriy generally have a ‘Loyalty to the authorities fund’ and this is where most of their money is pocketed. Most of the workers are merely left with $10~13 to live on a month.”

If this is the case for individual laborers in foreign countries, we can only fathom what the situation may be like for workers within North Korea. (Read the rest at the link above...)