Coronavirus, ‘robber-like brokers’ squeeze North Korean defectors’ remittances to their families
For years, the runaways have resorted to an underground network of brokers to send money to their families in North Korea
But now they’ve stopped or cut down the remittances because of falling incomes and the middlemen demand extremely high fees
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Ansan (South Korea), March 12
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