All About HAIR
Nuke, Missiles, and Wigs
Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York said
U.S. officials must keep products made by
North Koreans out of the United States. “The
Administration needs to ramp up the pressure
on China to crack down on trade with North
Korea across the board,”said Schumer.
W
igs and eyelashes made by North Ko-
rean labor camp detainees and civilian
children, as young as nine, are flood-
ing into the U.S. market. If you go to
a beauty supply store and find a fake eyelash that says
“Made in China” and it is priced below a dollar or two,
you should be suspicious of where it really comes from.
Some hair product prices are going down dramatically,
even the prices of time consuming ventilated full lace
wigs may be dramatically lower, and you should also be
suspicious who actually made them.
At a time when North Korea faces strict sanctions
on many exports, the government is sending tens of
thousands of workers worldwide, bringing in revenue
estimated at anywhere from $200 million to $500
million a year. This could account for a sizable portion
of funding for North Korea’s nuclear weapons and
missile programs. The North Korean workers found
in Chinese factories aren’t even allowed to leave the
factory compound and receive only a fraction of their
pay — most goes straight to the North Korean state.
This means that a pack of hair, a wig, or fake eyelashes
that are labeled “Made in China” may inadvertently be
subsidizing the government of Kim Jong Un as it builds
nuclear weapons, not to mention these items directly
support forced labor.
GOP Congressman Chris Smith from New Jersey,
who has repeatedly called for tougher enforcement, said
the Labor Department has already identified trafficking
in 12 sectors of goods exported by China. Top senate
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According to the Daily NK, “North Korean
children, as young as 9-years old, are hired
to make the fake eyelashes, which requires
intricate attention to detail. The children toil
under a burning lamp because there is no
electricity, which stresses their eyes. Other
workers have gotten burned when doing
ironing work over a coal fire, only to make
$0.05 per fake eyelash.”
Spending less is favorable proposition in most cases,
but at the price of child labor and labor camp detainees
who work as slaves? It’s definitely time to say, “I am
not going to pay for the North Korean nuke, nor the
missiles, and I do not support the slavery, especially
with children.”