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Modern-Day Comfort Women: The U.S. Military, Transnational Crime, and the Trafficking of Women (2007)

Category: Human Trafficking/Exploitation

Authors Donna M. Hughes, Katherine Y. Chon, and Derek P. Ellerman write that the trafficking of women is very big business for transnational organized crime networks.  It ranks third behind drugs and arms in criminal earnings.  In South Korea, traffickers "recruit and transport women to meet the demand largely created by U.S. military personnel and civilian men in South Korea and the United States.  In some cases, the U.S. servicemen themselves are traffickers working with Asian organized crime networks."

 

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