We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. A UK-based organization has documented widespread violence against women in North Korea, claiming that thousands of the communist country's women are being subjected to forced marriage and prostitution in China.
A report published by the Korea Future Initiative, a London-based NGO, reveals that thousands of North Korean women and girls are being subjected to forced marriage and prostitution in China. It says that trafficking gangs are running a multi-million dollar illegal sex industry in China. According to the Korea Future Initiative, its findings are based on "longterm engagement with victims living in China and exiled survivors in South Korea.
The NGO called for concrete measures to dismantle China's sex trade and confront a North Korean regime that "abhors women. Experts say that North Korean women are especially vulnerable to human traffickers as they are desperate to flee the country. Brokers involved in human trafficking know that their victims cannot turn to the Chinese police for help, analysts and activists say.
Authorities in Beijing have vowed to take strict actions against trafficking networks operating in the South Asian country. The reporters from AP covered over 2, kilometers 1, miles , in a country of barely 25, kilometers of roads, merely of those paved. They came back with only their photos as evidence of the life in the northern part of the secluded country. A North Korean man sits by a cooking fire he built to roast potatoes and chicken in the town of Samjiyon, in Ryanggang province.
Possibly more than any other populated place on earth, North Korea is terra incognita, but the AP team was granted access to see North Korea and travel through places that, they were told, no foreign journalist and few foreigners had been allowed to see before. North Koreans venerate Mount Paektu for its natural beauty, but more importantly because it is considered the home of the North Korean revolution.
