We’re contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry, specifically North Korean workers in Chinese plants. We have investigators on the ground in China who have been engaging with labor brokers directly involved with the transfer of North Korean workers to factories in China. Through this and other investigative means, including collecting online footage from the plants and interviews with workers recently returned to North Korea from China, we’ve found large numbers of North Korean workers at a range of seafood…

Thank you very much for your email. To date we have not received any prior communication from your newspaper.

We had been working with this supplier for 5 years, and as established by our procedures, we had made commercial visits to their facilities, visits by our own staff in China, audits by our Quality Control team, not evidencing any bad practice on the part of the supplier.

We were aware of alleged irregular practices by the supplier mentioned barely two weeks ago, specifically on 02/12/24. At that time, we initiated an internal investigation and requested information from the supplier,…