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The two sides ultimately agreed to handle the matter promptly.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean authorities also reportedly communicated closely with Chinese companies in need of labor, given that North Korean workers in China are a major source of foreign currency for the regime. The authorities reportedly stressed that China is short of labor, and nobody works as well or as cheaply as North Koreans.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea reportedly wants to continue sending workers to China with little in the way of policy changes.<\/p>\n<p>Preparations to send new workers to China appear to be going relatively smoothly. The source said that &#8220;about 500 workers \u2014 mostly women \u2014 are waiting to be sent to China,&#8221; with &#8220;about 70% going to fishery businesses and the remaining 30% to sewing factories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the workers &#8220;are mostly residents of the Hamgyong and Pyongan provinces and Pyongyang&#8221; and that &#8220;the workers&#8217; three-month screening recently ended.&#8221; This means North Korea has already completed its internal preparations to send new workers to China.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>China is still an important destination for North Korean labor<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>With North Korea and Russia recently growing closer economically and even militarily, some say that China has dropped in North Korea&#8217;s diplomatic priority list because North Korea &#8220;is likely to get more cash from Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly aware of this, North Korean authorities have put the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of External Economic Relations on guard, ordering them to &#8220;minimize diplomatic friction with China,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;North Korea is considering sending more workers to Russia, but this doesn&#8217;t mean it won&#8217;t send any to China, with the authorities planning to send small groups of workers there frequently,&#8221; he said. &#8220;North Korea must continue to send workers to any country it can to earn foreign currency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The national principle is that securing party funds and foreign currency quotas, bolstering bilateral cooperation with Russia and China and a national interest perspective should come first,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;The authorities plan to exercise flexibility in their worker dispatch policy in a way that also accords with the interests of Russia and China while continuing to cooperate with those countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources living in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. 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