{"id":55065,"date":"2023-05-16T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=55065"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:40:47","slug":"n-korean-trading-company-under-defense-ministry-preparing-to-send-soldiers-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/n-korean-trading-company-under-defense-ministry-preparing-to-send-soldiers-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean trading company under defense ministry preparing to send soldiers overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A trading company affiliated with North Korea\u2019s Ministry of Defense is preparing to deploy soldiers overseas for foreign currency earning activities, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonsong<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Trading Company, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Defense, is currently recruiting soldiers to dispatch overseas in compliance with Workers\u2019 Party orders,\u201d a reporting partner in the North Korean military told Daily NK <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yesterday,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting partner said that Jonsong Trading Company had deployed soldiers to work overseas in Mongolia and Russia in 2019, right before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea&#8217;s defense ministry operates a number of trading companies. One of these companies is the Kumrung Trading Corporation, known to be affiliated with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Bureau 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which mobilized laborers to earn money overseas in countries like Russia, Laos, Egypt, Syria, Iran, and Qatar during the Kim Jong Il era.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike relatively long-running trade companies like Cholhyun Trade Company or Kumrung Trading Corporation, Jonsong Trade Company is a relatively newer company formed after Kim Jong Un\u2019s ascent to power and, as a company affiliated with the Ministry of Defense, specializes in deploying soldiers overseas to secure funding for the regime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is unclear where exactly personnel will be deployed to this time, but the current round of recruitment began at the end of April. They are recruiting troops between the ages of 21 and 25 from non-combat units like the Engineering Bureau or Construction Bureau,\u201d the reporting partner said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usually when North Korean authorities recruit military personnel to deploy overseas, information is provided about how many people they are looking to recruit or where the soldiers will be sent. This time around, however, the information obtained by the reporting partner is unclear, perhaps due to efforts by the authorities to keep the deployment as secret as possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll that is known is that they are looking for about 100 individuals and that these personnel will be sent to two different locations,\u201d the reporting partner explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, the reporting partner suggested that Jonsong Trading Company seems to be placing special emphasis in the current round of recruiting on candidates\u2019 ages and the results of their comprehensive health exams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by Rose Adams. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of reporting partners who live inside North Korea and China. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\/20230515-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trading company affiliated with North Korea\u2019s Ministry of Defense is preparing to deploy soldiers overseas for foreign currency earning activities, Daily NK has learned. \u201cJonsong Trading Company, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Defense, is currently recruiting soldiers to dispatch overseas in compliance with Workers\u2019 Party orders,\u201d a reporting partner in the North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":40270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[691,930,1138,1656],"class_list":["post-55065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-military","tag-foreign-currency","tag-overseas-workers","tag-dprk"],"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>N. 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