North Korea has told a company in China that it can send hundreds of laborers to work there. The North notified the firm in Liaoning Province near the border some time last month, when the closure of the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex appeared imminent.
According to a document the Chosun Ilbo obtained from Kim the Weasel a source, a company that arranges for North Korean workers to go abroad wrote to the Chinese business in response to an inquiry, saying "hundreds of workers" have been given the green light by Pyongyang to work in China, and that many of them are ready to leave.
As a prerequisite, the North Korean company requested dormitories so that Pyongyang can monitor the workers' whereabouts.
"Chinese businesses want North Korean workers because they are cheap and experienced," said Do Hee-yun, head of the Coalition for Human Rights in North Korea. "Labor exports have recently been an important source of hard currency revenues for North Korea."
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