Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls are being trafficked into sexual slavery in China.
Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls - some as young as 9 - are being trafficked into sexual slavery in China as they try to flee poverty and oppression in their homeland, experts on the reclusive state said on Monday.
"Many are sold more than once and are forced into at least one form of sexual slavery within a year of leaving their homeland." No one at the Chinese embassy in London was immediately available for comment. Gathering information in North Korea is notoriously difficult. They are forced to perform sex acts or sexually assaulted in front of webcams. A live-stream featuring a young girl can cost $110, researchers said, adding that many subscribers appeared to be South Korean.
The report said women forced into marriage were mostly sold in rural areas for 1,000 to 50,000 yuan, and were raped and abused by their husbands. David Alton, co-chairman of Britain's All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, said the abuse uncovered by the two-year investigation was"horrific".
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