{"id":44986,"date":"2020-05-25T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=44986"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:04:44","slug":"some-north-korea-factory-workers-china-not-getting-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/some-north-korea-factory-workers-china-not-getting-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Some N. Korea factory workers in China are not getting paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean workers at some factories in China are not getting paid because their workplaces have shut down due to financial difficulties, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFactories and businesses in Yanji, Hunchun, Tumen and Kaishantun in Jilin Province &#8211; all places that use North Korean labor &#8211; are struggling financially because of COVID-19, and some have even gone bankrupt,\u201d a China-based source told Daily NK on May 20. \u201cMany North Korean workers have failed to receive their wages as a result.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, North Korean workers at a contract manufacturing factory in the Hunchun Border Economic Cooperation Zone<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are currently working without pay. Citing financial difficulties, the factory owner reportedly asked the workers to work without immediate compensation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other factories in the development zone have also fallen into bankruptcy, leaving countless other North Korean workers without pay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA factory that had employed about 150 to 200 North Korean workers recently shutdown,\u201d a North Korean official in charge of workers in China told Daily NK. \u201cWe got a lawyer to try to get the wages owed, but gave up when it was clear we wouldn\u2019t succeed.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe asked Chinese traders to recommend other places the laborers could find work, but they said they would not be able to find a place for so many workers,\u201d the official said. \u201cIt costs, at minimum, RMB 10 [USD 1.40] a day to pay for a single worker\u2019s meal, but since the workers aren\u2019t getting paid, [we] are using whatever money saved up to pay for food.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another concern voiced by North Korean traders and labor managers in China is their increasing inability to pay the \u201cloyalty fees\u201d required by the North Korean government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Koreans are earning much less because they\u2019re largely unable to work,\u201d a North Korean trader active on the Sino-North Korean border told Daily NK. \u201cHow can we contribute to the loyalty fund if there\u2019s no money? The authorities really can\u2019t do much about [this situation], either.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That being said, North Korean workers in factory dormitories are \u201cdividing themselves into teams to find any way possible to send money\u201d back to North Korea, he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean workers have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-orders-workers-china-stay-until-end-year\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forbidden<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the North Korean government to return to the country until at least the end of the year as part of efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19. <\/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\/%E4%B8%AD-%EA%B3%B5%EC%9E%A5-%EC%BD%94%EB%A1%9C%EB%82%98%EC%97%90-%EB%8F%84%EC%82%B0%ED%95%98%EA%B8%B0%EB%8F%84%E5%8C%97-%EB%85%B8%EB%8F%99%EC%9E%90-%EC%9E%84%EA%B8%88%EC%B2%B4%EB%B6%88\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean workers at some factories in China are not getting paid because their workplaces have shut down due to financial difficulties, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cFactories and businesses in Yanji, Hunchun, Tumen and Kaishantun in Jilin Province &#8211; all places that use North Korean labor &#8211; are struggling financially because of COVID-19, and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":44987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[759,930,955],"class_list":["post-44986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-china","tag-foreign-currency","tag-workers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some N. 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