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China-Japan-Koreas
North Korean women sold into 'slavery' in China
2012-05-15
[Christian Science Monitor] The price for a North Korean woman named Kim Eun-sun, her mother, and sister, to escape to China was 2,000 Chinese yuan, slightly more than $300.

Like thousands of North Korean women before them, they crossed the Tumen River into China and met a woman who said she would help them escape --only to discover that they'd been sold to a Chinese farmer who wanted a wife.

"A lot of women come to China not knowing what they are getting into," says Ms. Kim, who escaped the farmer with her family but was caught by Chinese police and then sent back to North Korea. "Women are secretly sold in China."

After fleeing from North Korea to China a second time, Kim Yuen-sun, her mother, and sister eventually made it to Mongolia moving mostly on foot across the Gobi desert. Mongolian soldiers found them and delivered them to the South Korean Embassy in Ulan Bator whence they were flown to Seoul.

Now a senior in college here, she has received a US government grant that gives her eight months of English-language training and another semester of study in psychology at a US university. Wherever she goes, she conveys the message of the suffering inflicted on North Korean women, generally estimated by officials and activists to comprise at least 70 percent of the defectors who cross into China.

She believes that exposure of the plight of North Koreans, particularly women, is the best she can do to bring about change.
Posted by:Fred

#4  One child policy wrought large
Posted by: manversgwtw   2012-05-15 10:45  

#3  Although being sold into a marriage to a peasant is far from ideal I don't think sex slavery is the right term. It conjures up images far worse. And considering the stories coming out of North Korea about eating bark and grass and cultures that often arrange marriages it's hard to get super worked up.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2012-05-15 10:30  

#2  At least the North Korean women have that option to escape. What option do North Korean men have?

#1 NORTH KOREA ...

versus

* WAFF > 3-4000 GIRLS FROM TURKEY WERE SOLD TO PALESTINIAN ARABS

I'm confused, JosephM. I thought the Palestinians were poor, struggling refugees -- such people cannot possibly afford slave girls, right?

/sarcasm


Posted by: trailing wife   2012-05-15 09:21  

#1  NORTH KOREA ...

versus

* WAFF > 3-4000 GIRLS FROM TURKEY WERE SOLD TO PALESTINIAN ARABS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-05-15 00:15  

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