{"id":44214,"date":"2020-03-23T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=44214"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:57:27","slug":"north-korean-laborers-china-still-not-returned-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-laborers-china-still-not-returned-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: N. Korean laborers in China have still not returned to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the novel coronavirus outbreak seemingly under control, Chinese factories and businesses are gradually returning to normal operations. North Korean laborers in China, however, are not heading back to work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany Chinese factories have opened again, but North Korean workers in Liaoning and Jilin Province aren\u2019t able to go to work yet,\u201d a China-based source told Daily NK on Wednesday. \u201cThey\u2019re still under quarantine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities are reportedly refusing to let workers go back to work over worries about whether they will be able to receive proper treatment if they become infected with COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NO MEDICAL TREATMENT AVAILABLE<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the North Korean laborers currently in China entered the country with technical learning permits or as industrial training exchange students, not work visas. This means that they would be unable to get proper treatment if they become infected with COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should the workers receive treatment in China, they would most likely have to pay for it out-of-pocket. While North Korean trade companies that manage workers in China are technically responsible for medical expenses, workers would most likely have to foot the bill, Daily NK sources said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past, North Korean workers have reportedly returned to North Korea for medical treatment instead of getting treated in China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One source in China told Daily NK about a North Korean laborer who was hurt in an industrial accident at a Chinese factory last year. The Chinese factory manager refused to pay for the man\u2019s medical expenses because the laborer was not \u201cofficially employed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man was forced to return to North Korea for medical treatment, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, however, North Korea has shut down trade and movement across the Sino-North Korean border. If, for example, a North Korean laborer in China becomes infected with COVID-19, they would have no way of returning to North Korea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Korean laborers wouldn\u2019t be able to get treatment nor return to North Korea,\u201d the China-based source told Daily NK. \u201cNorth Korean officials want to delay their return to the workforce until the coronavirus situation improves some more.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FRUSTRATION AMONG CHINESE COMPANIES GROWS<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese factories and companies, however, have reportedly begun to express discontent over the delay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Chinese factories or restaurant owners are asking for just a few workers to help with cleaning activities,\u201d another China-based source said. \u201cThe officials responsible for managing the workers have asked the Chinese managers to wait, saying that none of the North Korean workers can work until the North Korean state has issued an order allowing them to do so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean workers currently quarantined within their factory dormitories are impatiently awaiting the order to return to work. They have been unable to earn an income for the past two months, and their stipends for food are so meager that they were reportedly unable to properly feed themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRestaurants have been giving each worker RMB 10 [USD 1.41] for food per day, but it is difficult to eat three meals a day with that amount of money,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workers are still expected to contribute to the regime\u2019s \u201cloyalty fund.\u201d Some North Korean officials have secretly found job opportunities for the workers to allow them to earn some money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSome workers borrowed anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars to work in China,\u201d a North Korean involved in the restaurant industry in China told Daily NK. \u201cThey went into debt to work in China, and now they\u2019re anxious that they won\u2019t be able to pay off those debts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey are in debt and will be punished if they don\u2019t pay their fees to the government. That\u2019s why they\u2019re looking for all this work under the table,\u201d continued the source. \u201cIt\u2019s unreasonable that the authorities will forbid them from working yet expect the fees to be paid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK was unable to confirm when North Korean authorities will begin allowing workers in China to return to work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources told Daily NK that the officials managing North Korean workers in China have not been given any directions to how long the workers should remain in quarantine.<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%E4%B8%AD-%EA%B3%B5%EC%9E%A5-%EC%9E%AC%EA%B0%80%EB%8F%99%EB%90%90%EB%8A%94%EB%8D%B0%EB%8F%84-%E5%8C%97-%EB%85%B8%EB%8F%99%EC%9E%90-%EC%9E%90%EA%B0%80%EA%B2%A9%EB%A6%AC-%EC%9C%A0%EC%A7%80\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the novel coronavirus outbreak seemingly under control, Chinese factories and businesses are gradually returning to normal operations. North Korean laborers in China, however, are not heading back to work.\u00a0 \u201cMany Chinese factories have opened again, but North Korean workers in Liaoning and Jilin Province aren\u2019t able to go to work yet,\u201d a China-based source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":44217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[743,759,763,1138,3238],"class_list":["post-44214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-factories","tag-china","tag-covid-19","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sources: N. 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