U.N. report urges North Korea to end "institutionalized" forced labor

North Korea has engaged in serious human rights violations by subjecting its citizens to an institutionalized system of forced labor and the practice must be abolished immediately, a U.N. report said Tuesday.Based on 183 interviews conducted between 2015 and 2023 with victims and witnesses of the system who managed to escape and now live abroad, the report also said that organized forced labor even begins at school.North Koreans are "controlled and exploited through an extensive and multi-layered system of forced labor," the report said.Compulsory labor involves "almost all the population i…READ FULL ARTICLE