MT: How do North Korean women feed into the human trafficking problem?
MK: There’s a severe shortage of young women in China, due to China’s one-child policy, which has been in effect for 30 years. Many young Chinese men are desperate for wives. This has sparked a market in North Korean brides – young women who are kidnapped or tricked into going to China, where they are sold as “wives” to Chinese men. A North Korean woman who is sold as a bride is in a hopeless situation. If she leaves her husband and goes to the Chinese police, they will arrest her and send her back to North Korea, where she’ll be imprisoned for the crime of leaving her country. If she’s pregnant, her unborn child either will be aborted or delivered and killed. Every former North Korean bride I interviewed remembers the price that she was sold for.
MT: How can or does all this impact U.S. policy toward North Korea?
MK: First, we should face up to the fact that it is impossible to help North Koreans inside North Korea. The regime won’t let international food aid reach the people in need. It’s diverted to the elites and the military.
But we can do more to help the North Koreans who escape. We can publicize their plight more than we do. We can help them get more information into North Korea by increasing our aid to North Koreans who are running radio stations and other programs that send information to North Koreans in North Korea. The exiled North Koreans are helping to open their information-starved homeland. In doing so, they are opening the minds of their countrymen and sowing the seeds for dissent. We need to better support that effort.
The U.S. and the United Nations also need to put more pressure on China to stop sending North Koreans back to North Korea.
Finally, and perhaps most important, the stated policy of the U.S. should be the removal of the Kim family regime.
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North Korea is like a maximum security prison in terms of the control over its hapless subjects, but is worse because when one is born into it, the only out is through death.
That looks like a child with a rifle. I'd heard the South Koreans were getting bigger, and the Norks were getting smaller from nutritional differences. Korea is a prime example of the abject failure of communism, and the stunning success of capitalism and US influence.
I am reminded of the night-time satellite photo that Secretary Don Rumsfeld used to display in his office at the Department of Defense, the one which shows South Korea brightly lighted from the North to the South and virtually one speck of light representing the North Korean capital for the entirety of North Korea. How sad. How graphic.
That SKS is as big as the soldier.
The worst thing about NK prison camps is that some people are there because of "crimes" committed by their grandparents.
NK is what Satan's kingdom would look like if he were human – a society based on the idea that might makes right and the most powerful demands worship from others weaker than him.
China is the key to tearing down North Korean tyranny.
America can use her economic soft power to pressurize China into doing the right thing.
But since North Koreans aren't Muslims, Obama couldn't be bothered.
since north koreans are atheists, why are you bothered?
America? Soft economic power? LOL
China vs America
Obama is afraid of China ECONOMIC and MILITARY POWER!!
Hopefully, the regime in North Korea will fall one day soon and the South Korean government shall govern a unified Korea. Down with the Kim family regime!
Another example of a PERFECT SOCIETY created by Communists and dreamed of by Socialists, Progressives, and Fascists world wide!
OWS participants, North Korea awaits your arrival!
Join your brothers and sisters in the perfect society!
You can buy a ticket and leave US anytime!
You no longer have to struggle against the capitalists in the West!
There is a Shangri la where you can lay your burden down!
Courage and Godspeed.
The most chilling comment was when the interviewee said totalitarian regimes hate religion. Does this remind you of someone whose temporary address is 1600 pennsylvania Ave? Does'nt this someone have a problem with any religion except the muslim religion?
I heard a lot about North Korea,none of it pleasant. I'll be glad when the Kim dynasty disappears and the North Koreans can breathe true freedom.
The State Department policy should should be focused on bringing the regime DOWN.
When the faculty lounge bimbos at Foggy Bottom lay "humanitarian aid" money on the NK Gov, the money goes toward developing weapons and feeding the thugs who provide security for the regime.
Once again our Best and Brightest feed the devil and help him oppress and persecute.
We really need to rethink our foreign policy. And that starts with getting the career bureaucrats who think they represent the countries where they serve rather than representing the US and ALL THAT THAT ENTAILS FROM AN UNABASHEDLY AMERICAN perspective.
If they aren't on board with that, they need to be thanked for their service and handed pink slips.
The only thing that could prompt Obama to take effective measures against NK is for the Muslim Brotherhood to claim that country for Allah.
Ridiculous , of course Chinese gonna put him in prison ! he are help bringing in ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to China.
Think about this , if i am organizing illegal Mexican immigrants to US, I think i will be put into federal prison too . Why because it illegal !!!!!!!