On16 December 2022, La Strada International, with support of Prakken d’Oliveira and GLAN filed an appeal challenging the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s failure to prosecute two Dutch shipbuilding companies for profiting from North Korean forced labor at their supplier’s shipyard in Poland. We argue that the Dutch firms knew or reasonably could have known about the inhumane, slavery-like conditions that North Korean workers were subjected to, but still went ahead with ordering ship components. Workers sent to these compounds were found to have endured years of slave-like conditions, including: working between 10 and 13 hours each day; having their pay confiscated and sent to North Korean regime; and dangerous working conditions.