Hong Kong’s Singtao Daily reports: According to South Korea’s “Korean Daily”, the Chinese government is issuing work visas to allow 20,000 North Koreansto work in the three Northeast provinces.
The Korean paper cites diplomatic sources in Seoul, that in order to ease the labour shortage in the three Northeast provinces, the authorities have decided to let in 20,000 North Korean labourers to work as “industrial study students”. An enterprise in Tulin, Jilin Province has recently employed 29 North Korean women and another batch of 160 North Korean women will be sent to that area. Sources say the monthly pay for a North Korean worker exceeds US$150.
In my previous posts on Sino-North Korean and US-North Korean relations, I said that China would be benefited from North Korea’s isolation in exploiting North Korea’s cheap labour and rich natural resources. It seems this process has now begun on quite a large scale.
From China Daily Mail blog: First batch of 20,000 North Korean workers in China.
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