N. Korea Government Reportedly Took 70% of Money Paid for Kaesong Workers

South Korea said on Sunday that 70 percent of the U.S. dollars paid as wages and other fees for the now-suspended Kaesong industrial project run jointly with the North had been diverted for use in Pyongyang's weapons program and luxury goods for its leader. It is the first formal acknowledgement by the South that the 54,000 North Korean workers at the Kaesong complex saw little of the $160 they were paid on average a month. South Korea on Wednesday suspended the project as punishment...

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