{"id":57832,"date":"2024-02-08T06:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T21:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=57832"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:08:36","slug":"two-north-korean-defectors-china-arrested-talking-going-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/two-north-korean-defectors-china-arrested-talking-going-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Two N. Korean defectors in China arrested for talking about going to S. Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two North Korean defectors who talked to each other about going to South Korea were recently arrested by the Chinese police in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebei\">Hebei Province<\/a>, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTwo female defectors living in Hebei Province were arrested by the Chinese police at the end of January after exchanging text messages about going to South Korea,\u201d a source in China told Daily NK on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, Chinese law enforcement has been tightening surveillance of North Korean defectors by reading their text messages, bugging their telephone conversations, and even tracking their location. If the defectors show the slightest indication of heading to South Korea, they are immediately arrested, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recently arrested North Korean defectors were nabbed three days after they swapped text messages about heading to South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the police were making the arrest, they gave the women\u2019s Chinese family members a detailed account of the text messages the women had exchanged, including what the messages said and when they were sent, down to the day, hour, and minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe female defectors had never tried to go to South Korea and had never been stopped by the police, so they assumed that texting each other on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WeChat\">WeChat<\/a> about going to South Korea wouldn\u2019t be a problem. But that\u2019s when the police caught them,\u201d the source explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDefectors here [in China] have the dream of making it to South Korea. But they can be caught on the way or arrested for even texting about going [to South Korea], which is making people more and more anxious. Even so, there are defectors who don\u2019t give up on their dream and set out on the journey to South Korea,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Defectors lack legal status and financial independence<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biggest reason North Korean defectors in China want to go to South Korea is because of their lack of legal status in China. That leaves them with no recourse when they suffer unfair treatment, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, one of the recently arrested defectors had been working ten hours a day at a sewing factory since last October with the understanding that she would receive RMB 70 (around USD 10) per day. She was raising money to send family members back in North Korea for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_New_Year\">Lunar New Year<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But her wages from October to December kept getting delayed, and she has still not received a penny from the factory despite working two weeks in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the woman lacks legal status in China, she was unable to report her late wages or seek legal help, and the inability to deal with the problem on her own was stressful. For such reasons, she made up her mind to head to South Korea, where her legal status would be guaranteed, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis woman is currently in jail along with another female defector who was apprehended along with her. According to their Chinese family members, the police say the women will not be released for three to six months because they attempted to go to South Korea,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Korean defectors in China live precarious lives without legal status. They risk their lives to leave North Korea and I wish that they had a safe way to escape from this precarious situation and reach South Korea to lead a life of freedom and safety,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by David Carruth. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. 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\/20240206-4\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two North Korean defectors who talked to each other about going to South Korea were recently arrested by the Chinese police in Hebei Province, Daily NK has learned. \u201cTwo female defectors living in Hebei Province were arrested by the Chinese police at the end of January after exchanging text messages about going to South Korea,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":57648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1539],"tags":[1124,1656,743,759,791,844,922,1016,1123],"class_list":["post-57832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-north-koreans-in-china","tag-crackdowns","tag-dprk","tag-factories","tag-china","tag-police","tag-defections","tag-south-korea","tag-surveillance","tag-women"],"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>Two N. 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