{"id":53272,"date":"2022-11-17T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53272"},"modified":"2022-11-17T07:05:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:05:47","slug":"sources-around-80000-north-korean-workers-reside-dandong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/sources-around-80000-north-korean-workers-reside-dandong\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 80,000 N. Korean workers reside in Dandong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a source in China on Monday, Chinese quarantine authorities have confirmed that around 80,000 North Korean workers reside in Dandong, Liaoning Province. This figure was confirmed by the source through quarantine agency officials and quarantine-related volunteers in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Nov. 1, quarantine authorities in Dandong ordered a full lockdown of the entire city starting at 5 AM. All residents were banned from leaving their homes, except for employees of essential production facilities and emergency workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dandong quarantine officials also carried out PCR tests on all residents in the city. In this process, officials inspected the passports of the North Korean workers, confirming that some 80,000 reside in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese quarantine officials and volunteer workers were surprised at the high figure, saying they \u201chad no idea that so many North Koreans were in the city.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to this, Dandong went on a three-month lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak from Apr. 25. All city residents underwent PCR tests during this lockdown as well, including North Korean workers, trade officials and diplomats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese quarantine officials may have confirmed how many North Koreans were residing in Dandong during the previous round of PCR tests as well, but if they did, they kept tight-lipped about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to the closure of North Korea&#8217;s borders in January 2020, North Korean workers could reside in China with only temporary border entry permits, returning once a month to Sinuiju to have the permit stamped and renewed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean workers have continued to enter China to illegally work, falsely reporting to the Chinese authorities that they are in the country to visit relatives. Chinese police and immigration authorities have largely turned a blind eye to the practice, knowing full well what is going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If 80,000 workers reside in Dandong, at least 100,000 reside in all of China, including in the cities of Hunchun and Yanji, Jilin Province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, the United Nations estimated that about 100,000 North Korean workers were earning foreign currency overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a telephone conversation with Daily NK, Oh Gyeong-Seob, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), said when he conducted research into the number of North Korean laborers working overseas in 2017, the number of North Korean workers in China was already growing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are a fairly large number of North Koreans working in China after reporting [to the Chinese authorities] that they are there for reasons other than work,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause no precise survey has been done on this, the calculation that 80,000 North Korean workers reside in Dandong is fully plausible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese authorities have never revealed exactly how many North Korean workers reside in their country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Panel of Experts report released by the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea in April, the Panel of Experts sent a letter to the Chinese side requesting additional information on North Korean workers. However, the Chinese side responded by simply telling the committee that it was \u201cstrictly implementing all articles pertaining to migrant North Korean workers, and that all the work permits [of North Korean workers in China] expired prior to the UN Security Council\u2019s adoption of the resolution [banning the import of North Korean labor].\u201d It revealed no additional data about North Korean workers.<\/span><\/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\/20221114-4\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a source in China on Monday, Chinese quarantine authorities have confirmed that around 80,000 North Korean workers reside in Dandong, Liaoning Province. This figure was confirmed by the source through quarantine agency officials and quarantine-related volunteers in the city. 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