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CNN: N. Korean workers in Russia fear sanctions will send them home

By CNN.

Published Sept. 12, 2017 at 8:48 pm

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In Russia’s far-east, thousands of North Korean workers are given a glimpse of a world outside the tight controls of their own government’s propaganda.

But that small window may be about to close after the United Nations passed sweeping new sanctions September 11 designed to increase the pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear program.