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North Korean workers travel on the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge from Sinuiju to Dandong. Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Korean workers are returning en masse to North Korea from Dandong in China\u2019s Liaoning Province in what some observers suggest is an outcome of the failure of the US-DPRK summit in Hanoi.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn early March, Chinese authorities restricted the period in which North Koreans can reside in Dandong to just one week,\u201d a source in China close to North Korean affairs told Daily NK. \u201cNorth Korean employees of restaurants, saunas and other places all returned home in early March and even those working in clothing companies returned home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chinese authorities are at the heart of this mass exodus back to North Korea,\u201d he continued, referring to the fact that “Chinese authorities don\u2019t place limits on how many times North Koreans can visit China, but they have demanded that people must renew their visas back in North Korea once their sojourn period has ended.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Kim Jong Un\u2019s visit to China in March last year, the Sino-DPRK relationship warmed and large numbers of North Korean workers were sent to China for work. Just a year later, however, the situation has completely changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chinese are restricting sojourn periods for North Koreans to only a month,\u201d said a North Korean official who Daily NK met in China\u2019s Dandong city. \u201cEventually, all the North Koreans in China will have to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first phase the Chinese are conducting involves shortening sojourn periods to just one month, while the second phase in May or June will likely involve restrictions on passes given out to people to cross the border for business or family,\u201d said the official. \u201cThe last phase in December will involve everyone else returning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sino-DPRK relationship appeared to improve a great deal given the four summits that have occurred between the country\u2019s two leaders over the course of a year, suggesting that the actions the Chinese authorities have taken are sudden.<\/p>\n

Some observers believe that the failure of the US-DPRK summit in Hanoi and the ongoing US-China trade war are major factors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe failure of the US-DPRK summit seems to be the reason,\u201d said the official. \u201cThe Chinese are in a trade war with the American [expletive] so they have to meet with them. They want to show the Americans that they are following UN sanctions so they are kicking our poor workers out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The official suggested that China is suffering from difficulties due to the trade war with the US and is thus removing North Korean workers from the country as a way of strengthening its negotiating hand with the Americans in advance of a US-China summit, which could determine the direction the trade war takes.<\/p>\n

As the US continues to pressure North Korea to denuclearize, China appears to be adding to that pressure while pursuing its own national interests.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the UN has made it impossible for North Korean workers overseas to renew their visas and prevented new workers from going abroad through Resolutions 2371 and 2375 in 2017. This has given China a pretext to follow the UN sanctions on North Korea to the letter.<\/p>\n

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North Korean women workers at the customs office in Dandong. image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sudden restrictions on North Korean sojourn periods in China have led to stunned reactions among North Korean workers in China.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorth Koreans who received visas have had to pay a lot in bribes to get them, but now they have to return home. They can\u2019t earn much in just a week\u2019s time,” a North Korean workers in China told Daily NK.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s really angry and frustrated. We couldn\u2019t foresee China doing something like this to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the restaurant and trade company workers in Dandong were worried after the failure of the second US-DPRK summit,\u201d he added. \u201cThe Chinese authorities seem to be sending us all back to North Korea to improve their relations with the US because of the US-China trade war.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UN passed Resolution 2397 in 2017. The resolution demands that all North Korean workers abroad return home by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, North Korean workers in China are in a state of considerable unrest as news of the Chinese restrictions on sojourn periods has spread.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had hoped that we wouldn\u2019t be sent back if the US-DPRK summit was successful, but I\u2019ve totally abandoned all hope after hearing about what\u2019s happened in Dandong,\u201d a North Korean official managing North Korean workers in China\u2019s Jilin Province said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorkers who have heard about it are already packing to return home and are even buying things in Chinese markets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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