North Korea Summons Foreign Currency Earners Amid Defection Probe

[misskit]

Around 10 citizens from North Korea working as foreign currency earners for the Kim Jong Un regime across the border in China have been “forcibly returned” home by authorities, according to a source, amid reports of North Korean officials defecting in droves.

North Korea’s National Security Agency (NSA) summoned the workers as part of an investigation into a recent flood of high-ranking officials seeking asylum, the source from inside North Korea with knowledge of the country’s affairs in China told RFA’s Korean Service.

“Resident employees who work in Shenyang (in northeastern China’s Liaoning province) earning foreign currency were recalled in the last ten days of June by the North Korean government,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“It was not their will to go back. They were forcibly returned to their own country.”

According to the source, foreign currency earners are regularly summoned home at the end of each year for business purposes, but the decision to have them return in June was unprecedented.

“This time, the North Korean government called particular people out and summoned them. It must have been an arrest,” he said.

The order to return to North Korea was delivered to several branch offices in Chinese cities including Shenyang, the capital Beijing and Yanji, in eastern China’s Jilin province, the source said, adding that the NSA appeared to be exclusively targeting foreign currency earners.

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[bababags]

This is so weird on so many levels.

However, describing expats as foreign currency earners is really kooky

[Horatio Hornblower]

Just a quick search on the photo in the link,says enough for me, more western propaganda.

[spliff]

I'm presently reading The Orphan Master's Son....funny and sad at the same time.

[Mozzbie47]

Just a quick search on the photo in the link,says enough for me, more western propaganda.

Agree m
ore to the point is'nt it

[Mozzbie47]

^^^^^ MORE to the point