But when it's combined with the treatment of North Koreans not as refugees but as economic migrants who if sent back to North Korea, as my colleague on the panel here indicated, would be punished, that together creates a situation of a danger for sex trafficking.
Chris Smith: “But when it's combined with the treatment of North Koreans not as refugees but as economic migrants who if sent back to…”
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Smith discusses the risks of treating North Korean refugees as economic migrants, highlighting human trafficking concerns.
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