Your "made in China" clothes may actually have been made in North Korea

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A concern for fashion brands and Western shoppers is that in addition to their reportedly harsh working conditions, North Korea's state-owned factories help support the North Korean regime.

"We will ask the Chinese suppliers who work with us if they plan on being open with their client-sometimes the final buyer won't realize their clothes are being made in North Korea," one Korean-Chinese businessman told Reuters.

A separate but related issue is the number of North Korean workers entering China to work, including at clothing factories, which hire the immigrants because they can pay them much less than Chinese workers.

North Korea has sent tens of thousands of people abroad against their will to work and remit most of their income to the North Korean government.

In recent years, North Korea had ramped up the practice as UN sanctions financially squeezed leader Kim Jong-un's government.

Last year, Radio Free Asia reported that firms in northeast China producing clothes for companies including Calvin Klein and Levi's had hired hundreds of North Koreans.

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