; Whereas the combination of political, social, and religious persecution and acute food insecurity in North Korea cause many North Koreans to flee to China, a trend that has occurred for over 30 years now; Whereas an estimated 80 percent of North Korean asylum seekers are women and girls who are particularly vulnerable to trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, forced labor, or forced marriages and detention in China and if forcibly returned to North Korea they may face forced abortions, rape, and other forms of violence in detention; Whereas, according to the State Department’s latest Trafficking in Persons Report, approximately 30,000 children in China who were born to North Korean mothers and Chinese fathers are unregistered, making them stateless and ineligible for medical care, schooling, and other government support in the People’s Republic of China; Whereas in order to generate income for the Government, including its illicit nuclear weapons program, North Koreans are sent abroad, most often to China and Russia, to work under conditions that reportedly amount to forced labor, including in seafood process factories in Liaoning Province of China; Whereas seafood processed by North Koreans in Liaoning Province of China enter the United States market, including baby clams, squid, and haddock according to reports published by the Outlaw Ocean Project; Whereas China and Russia violate with impunity United Nations Security Council resolution 2397 (para. 8) which prohibits countries from employing North Korean workers after December 2019; Whereas any good made by North Korean labor, wholly or in part, is prohibited from entry into the United States market by section 321 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (P.L. 115–44)