{"id":43664,"date":"2020-01-29T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T06:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=43664"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:57:27","slug":"north-korea-dispatching-workers-back-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-dispatching-workers-back-china\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea is dispatching workers back to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many North Koreans working in China returned to their country at the end of last year in accordance with a UN-mandated repatriation order, but Daily NK sources in China recently reported that some of these workers are now returning to China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlthough China did send back workers who might be in violation of the repatriation order, such as laborers or trading company employees, some of the very same workers are coming back into China,\u201d a China-based North Korea source told Daily NK on Jan. 23.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat North Korea would actually withdraw all of its North Korean workers from China was basically a fantasy,\u201d added the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For their part, Chinese companies are said to support the move because they prefer North Koreans with a few years\u2019 work experience in China, including familiarity with the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NORTH KOREA PREPARES NEW WORKFORCE FOR CHINA DUTY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea is preparing to deploy a new workforce to China, Daily NK sources reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are workers in Pyongyang who are preparing to move to China,\u201d said the source. \u201cThey are being deployed under the pretense of professional cooperation and exchange.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities are reportedly working with their Chinese counterparts to produce the documents (presumably visas and proofs of residence) needed to send this new workforce into China, sources said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One source explained that this documentation does not reflect the actual affiliation or job type of the workers in question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs far as I know, visas &#8211; student visas or otherwise- will not be used to send this new group of workers to China,\u201d said the source. \u201cThey will be listed as affiliated with a company to maintain the pretext of professional exchanges between the two countries. They will then be sent to restaurants or factories once they receive approval for entry into China.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK sources also reported that male North Korean workers are currently standing by for deployment to the construction industry in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRegional Chinese governments are preparing documentation to admit them into the country, but it\u2019s not yet known whether this documentation will be in the form of visas or letters of invitation,\u201d one source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on observations from multiple sources in China, the new North Korean workforce will most likely be deployed to cities like Dandong or Shenyang in Liaoning Province, or Yanji in Jilin Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">THE BALL IS IN CHINA\u2019S COURT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Daily NK sources reported that there have been no attempts to send North Korean workers back to their country in areas of China where there are large concentrations of North Korean laborers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Korean supervisors managing the workers are afraid that they will be punished if they withdraw their workforce without a backup plan in place,\u201d one source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey are holding out for as long as possible until the Chinese government takes strong measures to send their workers back to North Korea,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EC%9D%BC%EB%B6%80-%E5%8C%97-%ED%95%B4%EC%99%B8-%EB%85%B8%EB%8F%99%EC%9E%90%EB%93%A4-%EC%B5%9C%EA%B7%BC-%E4%B8%AD-%EC%9E%85%EA%B5%AD-%EC%8B%A0%EA%B7%9C-%EC%9D%B8%EB%A0%A5%EB%8F%84-%ED%8C%8C\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many North Koreans working in China returned to their country at the end of last year in accordance with a UN-mandated repatriation order, but Daily NK sources in China recently reported that some of these workers are now returning to China.\u00a0 \u201cAlthough China did send back workers who might be in violation of the repatriation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":42659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645],"tags":[1138,3238],"class_list":["post-43664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy","tag-overseas-workers","tag-north-korea-foreign-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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