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Now there may be no need to worry, but Dandong, China, a Korean capital and Korean workforce, wants to leave footprints in the world football world.

In the temporary factory of a village in the outskirts of Dandong, 20 North Koreans are sewing soccer shoes by hand, and dream of letting the world wear them.

Since its full operation in July, the factory has sold nearly ten thousand pairs of shoes priced at $100, half of which are sold.

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North Korea's income is 100 pairs of shoes per month, not cash.

A worker named ChungNam-chul said: "machines can produce shoes, but hand-made shoes can meet personal preferences and are more comfortable."

"We wear our own shoes to test the quality and select the best quality shoes."

The Reuters press group visited the shoe factory under the supervision of the factory management.

ChungNam-chul and his colleagues from Pyongyang are members of the 4.25 sports group.

The group is also one of the most successful football league teams in North Korea, which is under the Korean people's army.

The North Korean workers in the Dandong factory are just working on the tip of the iceberg of the Koreans overseas.

About 6-7 Koreans work overseas to earn the hard currency needed for the DPRK.

A South Korean chief at the factory told Reuters that these workers had to save 200 dollars in monthly wages.

According to the refugee organization in Korea, many Koreans working in Russia, China and the Middle East pay their salaries in the form of vouchers instead of direct cash, because cash will go directly into the Korean treasury.

Since the truce in the Korean War of 1950-53 years, the DPRK and ROK are still in a state of war.

Apart from the special economic zones located on the border between the two countries, cooperation between the two Koreas is very rare.

Compared with the extreme poverty of most people in North Korea, these people who work in Dandong seem to be very lucky.

They have dormitories, restaurants and lounges in the factory, while cooks sometimes do barbecue at amateurs.

The ideology of North Korean officials is based on economic independence, but in reality, the country has not been able to satisfy people's demand for food for decades, and its factories and equipment are idle due to lack of electricity.

This small shoe factory in Dandong will not change much of the North Korean economy, but this does not prevent North Korean workers from having big dreams.

"If Messi comes here to put on our sneakers, that would be great," said OhSung-dong, a North Korean manager at the plant.

Barcelona Argentina star

(LionelMessi) sponsored by Adidas, Germany, the shoes he wears are provided by the company.

"When thousands of workers produce our football shoes in Pyongyang, they can dominate the world," said JooChul-soo, an official of the Federation of Korean national economic cooperation.