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Korea&#8217;s prostitution crackdown faces significant challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is issuing more brutal punishments for prostitution, but pimps often bribe the police and other officials to look the other way.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking anonymously, a source in South Pyongan province told Daily NK on Monday that a Kaechon resident in her 50s was arrested at the beginning of August for letting prostitutes work out of her home.<\/p>\n<p>After losing her husband, the woman raised her son alone while running a stall at a food distribution center. After her son joined a construction team last year, he repeatedly asked her for financial assistance. Finally, she rented out a room to prostitutes.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, a pimp had asked the woman to rent out a room, but she rejected him out of hand. However, as her financial circumstances worsened, she eventually accepted the offer, and police investigators found she had let prostitutes into her house more than twenty times.<\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s boss, the party secretary at the food distribution center, rebuked her after learning she had facilitated prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>The party secretary said: &#8220;As a socialist individual, how can you behave contrary to your moral compass and values? How could you have done such a thing when the whole country is moved to tears by the mighty love the Marshal (Kim Jong Un) has shown his people?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The party secretary warned the woman not to &#8220;live a filthy life.&#8221; He scolded the woman harshly, fearing he might face sanctions for failing to manage his workers properly.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Woman&#8217;s punishment lighter than expected<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Currently, the woman is serving a six-month forced labor sentence. However, people aware of the incident noted that her sentence was lighter than they would have expected.<\/p>\n<p>People involved in prostitution in North Korea can be sentenced to life in prison or even execution, and their assistants are humiliated with public trials and struggle sessions. However, this woman was quietly sentenced to six months of hard labor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the Marshal personally visited the flood-stricken area and comforted the flood victims, the entire country has enthusiastically praised him for taking such good care of his people,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;If non-socialist crimes came to light at such a time, the head of the neighborhood watch unit and other officials would likely have to go through a struggle session.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, party officials hurried to close the case to avoid getting into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of such considerations, policing of prostitution in North Korea tends to be perfunctory. In the woman&#8217;s case, the police did not uncover any information about either the pimps or the johns.<\/p>\n<p>Since pimps usually have the police and other officials in their pockets, they manage to slip through the cracks, leaving their assistants to take the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Officials even give warning to pimps to lie low before a prostitution crackdown is about to begin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These crackdowns are never going to be very effective as long as the enforcers are padding their pockets with bribes from pimps. Our country is so poor that more and more people are turning to prostitution to make a living,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. For security reasons, their identities remain anonymous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20240816-1\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is issuing more brutal punishments for prostitution, but pimps often bribe the police and other officials to look the other way. 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