Sold North Korea Brides Face Hard Choices in China (Japan Times)
“I cry when I think of my child in the North.” North Korean trafficked brides face hard choices in China, including leaving their children. Experts estimate that thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of North Korean women have been trafficked across the border and sold as brides since a crippling famine in North Korea killed hundreds of thousands of people in the mid-1990s.
AP, Japan Times, December 18, 2017.
