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color:inherit;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Koryo-saram" title="Koryo-saram">Koryo-saram</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%9A%D0%9D%D0%94%D0%A0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B8_155_%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83_%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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class="mw-redirect" title="Guest worker">guest workers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/North_Korean_defectors" title="North Korean defectors">defectors and refugees</a>. A 2006 study by <a href="/wiki/Kyung_Hee_University" title="Kyung Hee University">Kyung Hee University</a> estimated their total population at roughly 10,000.<sup id="cite_ref-JeanyoungLee_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JeanyoungLee-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aside from <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korean</a> citizens living in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, there has also historically been significant migration from the northern provinces of Korea, especially <a href="/wiki/Hamgyong_Province" title="Hamgyong Province">Hamgyong</a>, to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Far_East" title="Russian Far East">Russian Far East</a>; this population of migrants became known as the <a href="/wiki/Koryo-saram" title="Koryo-saram">Koryo-saram</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 65% of the <a href="/wiki/Sakhalin_Koreans" title="Sakhalin Koreans">Sakhalin Koreans</a> also took up <a href="/wiki/Nationality_Law_of_the_Democratic_People%27s_Republic_of_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationality Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea">North Korean citizenship</a> in the 1950s and 1960s in order to avoid <a href="/wiki/Statelessness" title="Statelessness">statelessness</a>; roughly one thousand even repatriated to North Korea, though their ancestral homes were in the southern half of the <a href="/wiki/Korean_peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Korean peninsula">Korean peninsula</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JeanyoungLee_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JeanyoungLee-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, various senior members of the <a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Korea" title="Workers' Party of Korea">Workers' Party of Korea</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Kim_Il_Sung" title="Kim Il Sung">Kim Il Sung</a> himself, lived in Russia prior to <a href="/wiki/Korean_independence_movement" title="Korean independence movement">Korean independence</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Establishment_of_North_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Establishment of North Korea">establishment of North Korea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Migration_history">Migration history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Koreans_in_Russia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Migration history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Students">Students</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Koreans_in_Russia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Students"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the post-<a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> reconstruction period of <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> from 1953 to 1962, many North Korean students enrolled in universities and colleges in countries of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_bloc" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet bloc">Soviet bloc</a>, including Russia, and others came as industrial trainees.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Workers">Workers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Koreans_in_Russia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Workers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:North_Korean_migrant_worker_numbers_in_Asia_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/North_Korean_migrant_worker_numbers_in_Asia_map.png/330px-North_Korean_migrant_worker_numbers_in_Asia_map.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/North_Korean_migrant_worker_numbers_in_Asia_map.png/495px-North_Korean_migrant_worker_numbers_in_Asia_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/North_Korean_migrant_worker_numbers_in_Asia_map.png/660px-North_Korean_migrant_worker_numbers_in_Asia_map.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="950" /></a><figcaption>Number of North Korean migrant workers in Asia</figcaption></figure> <p>In the late 1940s, roughly 9,000 North Korean migrant workers were recruited by the Soviet government to work in state-owned fisheries on <a href="/wiki/Sakhalin" title="Sakhalin">Sakhalin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1946 and 1949, one researcher estimated that 50,000 <a href="/wiki/Koreans_in_Kamchatka" title="Koreans in Kamchatka">North Koreans went to the Kamchatka Peninsula</a>. Several thousand Kamchatka Koreans refused repatriation orders, which created a community that exists to this day.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another 25,000 workers also came to work in <a href="/wiki/Fishery" title="Fishery">fisheries</a> during the 1950s. The second wave began in 1966 or 1967 under a secret agreement between <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a> and Kim Il Sung in <a href="/wiki/Vladivostok" title="Vladivostok">Vladivostok</a>, which involved North Koreans working as <a href="/wiki/Lumberjacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Lumberjacks">lumberjacks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LeMonde_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeMonde-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Independent_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roughly 15,000 to 20,000 were present in any given year. The first two waves consisted mostly of criminals or <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea" title="Human rights in North Korea">political prisoners</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LeMonde_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeMonde-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, the most recent influx of North Korean workers, which began under the government of <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, is composed of volunteers seeking to escape unemployment and poverty at home. Most are from <a href="/wiki/Pyongyang" title="Pyongyang">Pyongyang</a>; recruitment companies prefer workers from urban areas, as they are believed to adapt better to life in other countries. By 2006, more than 10,000 North Koreans entered Russia on work visas annually, largely headed for the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Far_East" title="Russian Far East">Russian Far East</a>. They are closely monitored by North Korean security forces to prevent defections; many report being paid in <a href="/wiki/Scrip" title="Scrip">scrip</a> rather than legal currency.<sup id="cite_ref-LeMonde_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeMonde-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, the North Korean government was estimated to earn roughly <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>7 million each year in foreign exchange through their workers in Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, reports came out from <a href="/wiki/Nakhodka" title="Nakhodka">Nakhodka</a> indicating that North Korean workers and traders there had been evacuated back to their home country due to rising military tensions with South Korea.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong_Il" title="Kim Jong Il">Kim Jong Il</a> made a visit to Russia in which he reportedly negotiated for even more North Korean workers to be sent to Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Up to 70% of the $40 to $100 per month wages earned by the workers are reported to be taken away as "loyalty payments".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soldiers">Soldiers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Koreans_in_Russia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Soldiers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is known that in late 2024, North Korea made an offer to the Russians to send troops to the Far East of Russia for military training, to eventually be sent to the frontlines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. By late 2024, videos emerged showing North Korean troops in Siberia training with Russian troops, and South Korea and various other intelligence agencies determined that North Korea had sent troops to Russia. These actions were condemned by NATO, the EU, South Korea, and the United States. It was not known if they would be sent to North Korea, and the soldiers of the KPA believed that they were sent to Russia for military training. The North Koreans sent about 12,000 troops according to Ukrainian intelligence. These soldiers eventually ended up on the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian War, serving in Kursk to counter the Ukrainian incursion of the Kursk Oblast. Ukraine first noted inflicting casualties on the North Koreans in late 2024. North Korea denied having sent troops to aid the Russians, and have not responded to calls from Ukraine and other countries to withdraw. In 2025, Ukraine captured 2 soldiers from North Korea, confirming that North Korea had sent troops to aid the Russians. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Refugees">Refugees</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Koreans_in_Russia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Refugees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The decline of the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_North_Korea" title="Economy of North Korea">economy of North Korea</a> has also resulted in an increasing number of North Korean refugees in Russia, also in the eastern regions. Many of these refugees are runaways from the North Korean logging camps. Both <a href="/wiki/South_Korean_diplomatic_missions" class="mw-redirect" title="South Korean diplomatic missions">South Korean diplomatic missions</a> and local ethnic Koreans are reluctant to provide them with any assistance. As early as 1994, the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_South_Korea" title="Prime Minister of South Korea">South Korean prime minister</a> was quoted as stating "It is legally not tidy for us to grant <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Koreans</a> asylum". It is believed that North Korea ordered the assassination of <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> consul <a href="/wiki/Choi_Duk-gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Choi Duk-gun">Choi Duk-gun</a> in 1996 as well as two private citizens in 1995, in response to their contact with the refugees. In 1999, there were estimated to be only between 100 and 500 North Korean refugees in the area.<sup id="cite_ref-Chosun_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chosun-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, their numbers grew rapidly. In 2003, <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Mikhaylovich_Darkin" title="Sergey Mikhaylovich Darkin">Sergey Darkin</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Primorsky_Krai" title="Governor of Primorsky Krai">Governor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Primorsky_Krai" title="Primorsky Krai">Primorsky Krai</a>, suggested allowing up to 150,000 North Korean refugees in China to settle in Russia, but his plan never came to fruition.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2007, Russian law enforcement abducted a North Korean asylum seeker in front of a Federal Migration Service office in Moscow, which turned him over to agents of the North Korean special services. The refugee later escaped from a facility in Vladivostok, and intervention by the <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">NGO</a> Civic Assistance and <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees" title="United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees">UNHCR</a> prevented his deportation.<sup id="cite_ref-World_Refugee_Survey_2008_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Refugee_Survey_2008-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Koreans_in_Russia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Korean_diaspora" title="Korean diaspora">Korean diaspora</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Koreans_in_Russia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150316142557/http://www.fms.gov.ru/about/statistics/data/details/54891/">"ФМС России"</a>. 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A three-part article about a North Korean logger who escaped from a work camp in Siberia.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2011" class="citation cs2">Smith, Shane (2011-12-21), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141012203918/http://www.vice.com/vice-news/north-korean-labor-camps-full-length">"North Korean Labor Camps"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Vice_(magazine)" title="Vice (magazine)">Vice Magazine</a></i>, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vice.com/vice-news/north-korean-labor-camps-full-length">the original</a> on 2014-10-12</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Vice+Magazine&rft.atitle=North+Korean+Labor+Camps&rft.date=2011-12-21&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Shane&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fvice-news%2Fnorth-korean-labor-camps-full-length&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANorth+Koreans+in+Russia" class="Z3988"></span>. 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