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2013-05-15 China-Japan-Koreas

N.Korea Wants to Send Hundreds of Workers to China

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Posted by Steve White 2013-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 They also don't eat much...

Hard to do when they probably send 80% of their food back home, too.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-05-15 10:24|| 2013-05-15 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Easily replacable as well.

Posted by Pappy 2013-05-15 10:28|| 2013-05-15 10:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Uh... they misspelled slaves.....

As a prerequisite, the North Korean company requested dormitories so that Pyongyang can monitor the workers' whereabouts.

And please provide appropriate slave quarters...

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-05-15 10:32|| 2013-05-15 10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 You know, with all of those excess-to-requirements rural peasants, I'd think that the last thing China needs is more unskilled, cheap labor. Isn't the central challenge of the CCP the problem of finding suffcient employment to absorb hundreds of millions of low-productivity agricultural workers in more high-productivity manufacturing capacity?

South Korea's a different case, they don't have the vast back-country of cheap labor that China does - not these days, anyways. Unless you count North Korea. Which was sort of the point of Kaesong.

Posted by Mitch H. 2013-05-15 17:00|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2013-05-15 17:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Not certain Mitch, my understanding is that agricultural workers of certain prime cohorts are getting very rare, both because of the aging of the population and the migration of workers from the Hinterlands to the coast.

Perhaps ZeF can't cast some light.

Posted by Shipman 2013-05-15 17:35|| 2013-05-15 17:35|| Front Page Top

#6 North Korean Workers are also having fun working in Siberian logging camps.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-05-15 19:40|| 2013-05-15 19:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Send them, let them learn, bring thhem home, PRESTO, Knowledgable slaves, and a ndustry is born.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-05-15 22:41|| 2013-05-15 22:41|| Front Page Top

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