North Korea Human Smuggling

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The price offered by commercial brokers to people wanting to be smuggled out of North Korea into China is between $2,000 to $10,000.¹

North Korea Black Markets

Market Value:
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MARKET INFORMATION

An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 North Koreans are living in China.²

8,000 to 10,000 North Koreans cross into China every year,³ but published reports have stated that the as many as 500,000 North Koreans may have been to China and returned back to North Korea over the past ten years.⁴

Sources:

1. Sarah Buckley, " Escaping North Korea," BBC News, July 28, 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3932591.stm (accessed: May 23, 2006).

2. Andrei Lankov, " The Natural death of North Korean Stalinism," Asia Policy, No.1, January 2006, pg. 95-121, available at: http://www.nbr.org/publications/article.aspx?ID=e00ea721-a44b-48d7-8a92-93c94094e0d1 (accessed: May 23, 2006).

3. Sarah Buckley, BBC News.

4. Andrei Lankov, " How to Topple Kim Jong Il," Foreign Policy, March/April 2007, pg. 71.