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US Designates N. Korea as Country with Worst Human Trafficking Record
2016-07-01 Updated.
 
The U.S. has put North Korea on the list of the countries with the worst track records on human trafficking for the 14th consecutive year.

The U.S. Department of State on Thursday released its annual “Trafficking in Persons Report 2016” in which the North had been classified as a tier 3 country out of a four-step classification.

Tier 3 include countries whose governments do not meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking and make no significant efforts to do so.

Twenty-six other countries were put in the lowest tier, including Iran, Russia and Syria.

The report shed light on the North’s manipulation of its people for the purpose of forced labor in prison camps or labor training centers and sexual trafficking.

It estimated there are around 80-thousand to 120-thousand prisoners in political prison camps in remote areas of the country, adding forced labor is a systematic political oppression of its people by the regime.  

Meanwhile, South Korea has been included among the tier 1 countries for the 14th straight year. 
 
 
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