MOSCOW Feb 7 Kyodo North Korea ha...

MOSCOW Feb 7 Kyodo

North Korea has agreed to double the number of North Korean laborers in the Russian Far East for forestry work, the Russian Itar-Tass stranges agency said Friday.

The agency said North Korea's Forestry Minister Ri Sang Mu reached the agreement at a meeting with the governor of the Amur region, Leonid Korotkov, upon Friday during a visit to the Amur region.

The agreement calls for increasing the number of North Korean forestry laborers in the Amur region this year to 3000 up from 1670 at present

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