N. Korean workers in Russia fear sanctions will send them home
Vladivostok, Russia (CNN)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.
The luckier ones work in Vladivostok, where they are a common site on construction sites, laboring to renovate the city's Soviet-era buildings, worn down by icy winter temperatures and the salt spray off the Pacific.
While they will be allowed to finish their contracts under the new sanctions, no new North Koreans will be allowed to replace them, a development that worried many of the workers themselves.
"We really like Vladivostok," a North Korean worker told CNN ahead of the sanctions vote. "It would be bad if I can't work here anymore, it's very nice here, I can send money to my son."
He did not give his name for fear of official reprisals on return to North Korea.
N. Korean workers in Russia fear sanctions will send them home - CNN