North Korean Workers Return to China in Defiance of UN Restrictions

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North Korean Workers Return to China in Defiance of UN Restrictions
2018-04-04

North Korean laborers barred under U.N. sanctions from working abroad are now moving back into China in an apparent violation of restrictions aimed at punishing Pyongyang for its illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs, sources along the border say.

Though workers formerly sent into China to earn foreign currency for North Korea’s cash-strapped regime are still under U.N. orders to return home, no new lines of returning workers are being seen, sources working on the border say.

Instead, North Korean workers have been observed entering China in defiance of the rules, they say.

Continued at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/workers-04042018134944.html