YOUNG female refugees from North Korea are increasingly becoming a commodity in China, where they are sold to farmers for up to US$1,500 (S$2,070) a head, according to a Seoul campaigner.
The human trafficking is far from new but has become more prevalent as prices soar amid a shortage of Chinese women in the countryside, said Reverend Chun Ki Won, head of the Durihana Association, which offers aid to refugees.
North Korean women who escaped the sex trade in China said brokers there treated them like livestock, selling them on to one or more 'husbands'
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