Good Food
North Korea's seafood industry riddled with abuse
If you’ve purchased “Sea Queen” seafood from Walmart or Aldi, you may have eaten products being harvested and packaged by North Korean workers living in barrack-style dormitories in Hunchun, China. Three years ago , journalist Martha Mendoza traveled to these factories to report on their labor practices. She is back to give us an update.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readIf you’ve purchased “Sea Queen” seafood from Walmart or Aldi, you may have eaten products being harvested and packaged by North Korean workers living in barrack-style dormitories in Hunchun, China. Three years ago, journalist Martha Mendoza traveled to these factories to report on their labor practices. She is back to give us an update.
