Sex Worker's Day - Protest Rally (Photo : Getty Images)
The worsening economic situation in North Korea has caused women in the communist state to go to the country’s border with China and engage in the flesh trade.
Daily Star reported that North Korean sex trade workers agree to bed Chinese men for as low as $18 or 23,000 North Korean won. As a result, a lot of brothels are opening in China’s border with North Korea even if prostitution is illegal, promoted through sites such as the Wiki Sex Guide.
Since Beijing is Pyongyang’s ally, Chinese tourists and businessmen could easily cross the border and visit the country run by Kim Jong-Un. They frequently visit Hamheung where there are state-run factories that have commercial ties with Beijing as well as brothels disguised as beauty parlors or massage parlors where sex could be had for as low as 10,000 won.
Meanwhile, North Korea called a senior diplomat who defected to South Korea an embezzler, child rapist and all-around human scum. Thae Young-Ho, who was based in London, arrived in South Korea this week. He was the second-highest official of the North Korean embassy in London and the most senior North Korean defector.
It was his disgust with the regime of Kim Jong-Un, the official’s yearning for South Korean democracy and concerns over this children’s future that made Thae defect.
