{"id":42261,"date":"2019-09-24T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=42261"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:57:28","slug":"north-korea-orders-one-day-early-recall-all-workers-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-orders-one-day-early-recall-all-workers-china\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea hands down recall order to all workers in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although three months remain until North Korean workers abroad are required to return home in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution, the regime has suddenly handed down a recall order to workers in China to return home before the December deadline, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The regime may have aimed to ease the pressure on China to adhere to the UN resolution and is instead focusing on other ways to deploy workers abroad, some Daily NK sources have suggested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe recall order was sent through the North Korean embassy in China earlier this month to managers of North Korean workers in the country,\u201d a source familiar with the order told Daily NK. \u201cIf no unforeseen events prevent it from happening, it will likely be carried out.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UN Security Council Resolution 2397 calls on all North Korean workers overseas to return home by December 22, but the North Korean authorities have reportedly decided to recall their workers a day earlier, on December 21.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not clear, however, whether the recall order applies to all North Korean workers in China or only those working in the Sino-North Korean border region. \u201cThe recall order will most likely take specific effect with regards to workers living and working at factories near the Sino-North Korean border, such as Jilin Province where many workers reside,\u201d another Daily NK source said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean workers in China are concentrated along the Sino-North Korean border, so the order will nonetheless affect most in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSanctions on North Korea are international in nature so the regime may have decided that recalling all of them would serve to reduce pressure on the Chinese,\u201d the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some experts, however, say that the order is just a ploy to show the world that North Korea, and by extension China, is implementing the UN resolution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A North Korea expert in China who requested anonymity told Daily NK that \u201cKim Jong Un\u2019s emphasis on following international norms is just a political ploy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts also caution that a full recall of North Korean workers in China will be very difficult to verify. North Korean workers can still continue to work in Chinese companies through short-term visas or \u201capprentice\u201d visas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Daily NK has long reported on the difficulties involved in confirming the presence of North Koreans in the country, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-workers-avoiding-international-sanctions-while-working-in-china\/\">efforts by Chinese business people<\/a> to keep North Korean workers on their payroll and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-workers-use-visa-fraud-to-stay-in-china\/\">visa fraud.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chinese authorities have allegedly stopped issuing new work visas to North Korean workers and those whose visas have expired have returned home. Yet there is still evidence that North Koreans are receiving so-called \u201criver crossing visas\u201d to head to China for short stays.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also appears that there has been a slow down in replacements of North Korean officials in China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Koreans who are in China to earn foreign currency, do business, or for official activities are staying longer in the country than before, perhaps as a way to deal with the mass repatriation of North Korean workers,\u201d the Chinese analyst told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK\u2019s source in China added that it remains unclear whether the order will lead to all workers leaving by December 21 or workers closer to the border will be sent home first before those located further afield. He also noted that although three months are left before the mass recall of workers, there does not seem to be any full-fledged efforts by North Koreans in the country to return home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although three months remain until North Korean workers abroad are required to return home in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution, the regime has suddenly handed down a recall order to workers in China to return home before the December deadline, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 The regime may have aimed to ease the pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":42262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[181,222,3238],"class_list":["post-42261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-sanctions","tag-border","tag-north-korea-foreign-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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