According to the Korea Times, a Chinese town near the border with North Korea is «urgently» recruiting and ordering Korean-Chinese interpreters to work at 10 departments in the town, including border security, public security, trade, customs and quarantine, «stirring speculation…
With the North Korean situation tense after Friday’s latest failed missile attempt, the South Korea’s Korea Times reports that a Chinese town near the border with North Korea is «urgently» recruiting Korean-Chinese interpreters, «stirring speculation that China is bracing for an emergency situation involving its nuclear-armed neighbor.»
The Korea Times cites The Oriental Daily, a Hong Kong-based news outlet, which reportedly published the story on Apr. 27, including a photo of a Chinese government document ordering the town of Dandong to recruit an unspecified number of Korean-Chinese interpreters to work at 10 departments in the town, including border security, public security, trade, customs and quarantine.
The document did not specify the reason behind the unusual, large-scale recruiting.