More than 50,000 North Koreans will be sent to work in Russia, as Moscow's war in Ukraine drains labour pools.

North Korean workers who have fled the country told the BBC about slave-like working conditions in Russia, where they are sent to fill the labour shortage exacerbated by Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

Thanks to a grim deal between Russian and North Korean despots Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, tens of thousands of North Koreans are pouring into Russia