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UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell and James Heenan, Representative of the UN Human Rights Office in Seoul briefed journalists in Geneva on Tuesday on institutionalised forced labour in the DPRK. Link to full report: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/forced-labour-democratic-peoples-republic-korea
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