A Frontier Story: How Chinese Fish Factories Thrive Thanks to North Korean Forced Labor

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A Frontier Story: How Chinese Fish Factories Thrive Thanks to North Korean Forced Labor

In February 2023, Donggang Jinhui Food, a seafood processing company from Dandong (China), was holding a party. It had been a successful year: the company had opened a new large factory in its facilities in the city and had doubled the amount of squid it exported to the United States. The videos of the event, published on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, show singers, players, dancers, fireworks and strobe lights. A crucial aspect of the c…