Human rights group exposes North Korean women forced into sex slavery in China's "Red Zone"

Hundreds of thousands of North Korean women have been forced into marriages, sold into sex slavery, or sent to work in detention camps after escaping their country and finding themselves trapped in China’s so-called "Red Zone," a human rights group says. The situation has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic as many vulnerable women found themselves stuck inside China’s locked down borders, making them an easy target for sex traffickers. The US State Department says many North Korea refugees and asylum seekers living irregularly in China are particularly vulnerable to traffickers who lure, drug, detain, or kidnap North Korean women upon arrival.