Exclusive "North Korea and China share profits by establishing forced labor for repatriation and slavery"

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A study found that North Korea and China share enormous economic benefits by establishing a system that uses forced North Koreans as slave labor.

Forced North Koreans make goods demanded by China in harsh environments, and these products are turned into Chinese products and exported around the world.

Reporter Kim Seung-jae reports.

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Ji, who was forced to return to the North while pregnant from China, was detained at a correctional facility near the North Korea-China border.

" Are you pregnant? You Ganna! Abortion! Are you going to give birth to a Chinese seed?"

The North Korean authorities forced abortion in all ways, including injections and torture, saying they could not produce Chinese blood.

But the new life came out into the world with a blue needle mark on its forehead.

The North Korean authorities tried to bury the newborn in the ground, and the mother begged her to wrap it in her clothes even if she did.

[Ji Eun-hye (pseudonym)] I took off my clothes, wrapped my baby, and asked him to bury me. I won't forget this grace. I asked him to wrap it in his clothes and bury it.]

Women who were forcibly repatriated to the North, like Ji, were forced to labor in a school adjacent to China.

Using raw materials sent from China, we made several products such as handmade wigs, fake eyelashes, bags, and clothes.

These products have been exported to various parts of the world with Chinese labels.

YTN acquired handmade wigs, fake eyelashes and rattan bags made inside North Korea this summer and showed them to North Korean defectors.

[Lee Hansol (pseudonym): Yes, that's right. This is the same wig we made when we were in prison.]

According to statistics from the Chinese Customs Service, North Korea exported $134 million worth of wigs and eyelashes to China from January to August, worth 187 billion won.

[Yoanna Hosanyak / Deputy Director of the Citizens' Coalition for North Korean Human Rights: If you get permission from the Chinese government to process alcohol, you don't have to pay a lot of taxes. Then, Chinese companies actually made it in North Korea, but label it Made in China, and then it can be sold all over the world.]

If China forcibly repatriates North Korean defectors, North Korea locks them up and acts like slaves to make products that China wants,
North Korea and China are making huge profits by selling these 'made in China' products all over the world.

From the 1st of next month, YTN will report the vivid situation through a documentary trilogy called "North Korea Human Rights Report - Disposable Humans."

I'm YTN's Kim Seungjae.