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Lina Park
Lina Park is a news trainee at NK News. She previously researched North Korean human rights issues at Hanvoice and South Korean foreign relations at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada.
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News US lawmaker urges action over import of seafood processed by North KoreansReport finds that DPRK laborers illegally working in China continue to process seafood that ends up in US A U.S. lawmaker has called for investigation into the import of seafood processed by North Korean laborers illegally working in China. In a hearing conducted by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on Tuesday, Republican Chris Smith strongly criticized China-based companies for exploiting "the forced labor of Uyghurs and North Koreans to process substantial quantities of seafood destined for the U.S. market." © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |