"Religious groups provide a channel to South Korea by connecting North Korean refugees with a broker. However, if you have a pretty face, the broker might want to sell you as a bride instead. It's scary... you don't have any choice since he can decide your life... "

"Most women refugees I met in the Korean-Chinese church told me that they had that kind of experience [sexual trafficking], except for those who had relatives in China... For male North Korean defectors, trafficking cannot be an option because so many of them are ferreted out and are repatriated to North Korea. In the case of male North Korean defectors, they conceal their identities and work in farms or coal mines, or at construction sites... [but] finding that kind of work is not that easy."

"Many young North Korean women [like me] who marry old Chinese men are so abused that they run away leaving their husband behind."

"I know a case where a North Korean sold five North Korean women in cooperation with the North Korean army. Chinese people were waiting on the border... Male refugees have more difficulties. Chinese police treat male defectors more severely because they think they are more threatening to Chinese public security. If a male defector says that he served in the army, then he is immediately shackled..."

"North Korean women are usually sold to Chinese people. Once a woman is sold, they guard the woman so that she can't go anywhere. There are also many cases where women actually wish to be sold of their own desire because their situation is so difficult. A 20-year-old woman is sold to a 70-year-old man... Women are not sold to rich people but to very poor or handicapped people. They are sent to rural towns. Prices vary depending on the age of the woman. It is just like trading goods... they are sold and treated like slaves."