Prostitution Said to Be Widespread in Chongjin

Next time one of North Korea’s apologists speaks of its pristine moral vales, gender equality, or absence of sexist billboards, someone remind me to point them to this:

“The prostitution of teenage females is rampant, which has forced the security services of Chongjin to dispatch plain-clothed security officers to the station to crackdown on it. But the cleverly disguised prostitution of female university students is increasing, and some of them have close relationships with the same security officials who are participating in the crackdown. These conditions have made the situation uncontrollable.” [Daily NK]

Eventually, the system will be destroyed by the corruption it has forced on everyone else. The problem is, North Korean women who are reduced to this won’t ever completely recover from it, and their society won’t recover from it for decades.