November 21, pm Updated November 21, pm. Birth control is banned in the country as dictator Kim Jong-un strives to create a bigger population of socialist workers. But businessmen and officials on trips to neighboring China are bringing back condoms to give as presents. Smugglers are also cashing in by selling them to prostitutes to prevent pregnancy and the spread of sexual diseases.
Condoms are banned from manufacture or sale in North Korea and are blocked from entry at customs posts, a Chinese-North Korean merchant who travels between the countries told Radio Free Asia. North Korean officials bring them back home when returning from business trips in China.
Also speaking to RFA, a Chinese businessman living in Pyongyang said that widespread prostitution in North Korea has made the use of condoms even more necessary than before.
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