‘Unmarried Girls Are Sold For Rs 25,000 In China’: Yeonmi Park Who Escaped North Korea At 13 – News18

China is suffering from the problem of bride trafficking because of reasons like the country’s long-standing one-child policy and preference for the male child. Now, reportedly, Chinese men are finding it difficult to search for wives and this has become the reason for driving a business of selling women and girls from neighbouring countries.

In this business, an unmarried woman is ‘purchased’ for a sum of Rs 25,000, and is raped by all the men in the village till the point she loses her life. These startling revelations have been made by a North Korean woman named Yeonmi Park in an interview. Yeonmi said that she had escaped from North Korea to China in search of a better life since North Korea is ruled by a dictator (Kim Jong Un).

Yeonmi hoped that she would get a good life there but her life took a turn for the worst. She and her mother were targetted by a human trafficking racket. Her mother was sold by brokers for 8,500. On the other hand, she was sold for Rs 25,000, since she was a virgin. “So right now in China, due to the one-child policy, there 40 million Chinese men cannot find a woman to marry them.” She said that the men in the rural areas are so poor that they buy one girl, rape her and do the same thing with other women. According to Yoemni, this is done to the point that the women lose their lives. “That’s how they treat you. We are not even human beings to them”, she said in the closing statement.

Social media users had mixed reactions to the clip. Some of them appreciated Yeonmi’s courage to reveal these facts to the world. Others felt that the girl might be lying about her escapade story from North Korea. They, however, also had the opinion that Yeonmi might not be lying about her story of being sold to Chinese men by a human trafficking ring.

According to a report published in hrw.org, the Chinese government has not taken any steps to curb this problem for many years now. The government remained ignorant about the authority’s complicity in these crimes.