My friend Mingi passes on this article:
The women who flee North Korea believe nothing could be worse than
their dictatorship’s famine and labour camps.
But many change their minds after they cross the Tumen River into the
“safety” of China, smuggled by middlemen who promise safe passage.
“I was locked into a house and raped every night,” said Kim Chun-ae, a
matronly 51-year-old. “My teenage daughter was sold three times by
traffickers. She was ‘recycled’.”