The use of overseas North Korean workers was prohibited by the United Nations Security Council in 2017, with Resolution 2397 setting a deadline of December 2019 for the repatriation of all such workers to North Korea. However, our investigation has found large numbers of North Korean workers at a range of seafood processing plants in Dandong city, close to China’s border with North Korea. Our research indicates that the dispatch of workers abroad is partially overseen by Bureau 39, and in the specific case of workers destined for seafood processing factories, the DPRK Fisheries Association hel…