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China-Japan-Koreas
China Halts Repatriation of N.Korean Defectors
2012-04-19
The Chinese government has halted the repatriation of North Korean defectors, apparently in response to South Korean requests.
This is just for the rubes in the West. "Look, China is getting tough!" the rubes will say, and then they'll demand that we feed North Korea 'as a good will gesture'.
The Yomiuri Shimbun on Wednesday cited an official from China's Liaoning Province as saying China, which had been repatriating up to 30 North Korean defectors a day since the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in December, recently stopped doing so.

"North Korea failed to inform China of specific plans to launch its missile last Friday," another Chinese official told the Japanese daily, which added that BeijingÂ’s anger at being kept in the dark played a role in the decision to stop the repatriations.

China drew condemnation from international human rights groups by claiming North Korean defectors were not political refugees but merely economic migrants searching for work. But the Yomiuri said Beijing's stance appears to have changed since Chinese President Hu Jintao met his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul last month, when Hu pledged to "respect" the South's request to stop repatriating them.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Domestic human organ shortage ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-04-19 08:53  

#3  Good, they're treated like shit.

Only if you mean "poured into barrels, and set on fire".
Posted by: Mitch H.   2012-04-19 08:51  

#2  ION NOT-HOME-ALONE/SLEEPLESS ON THE YALU, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Yet another]100,000 CHINESE RESIDENTS MAY HAVE TO MOVE DUE TO FEARS OF THREE GORGES DAM COLLAPSE. Landslides + sidebank collapses seen.

The massive 3GD was supposed a source of Chin national pride + credibility, ala "The Great Wall", but instead may had caused or exascerbated myriad of Probs both inside + outside of China proper, NOTABLY CHINA'S + ASIA'S "MISSING/DISAPPEARING WATER".

Besides prouducing vital hydro-energy, 3GD was suppos to be combatting China's environ desertification, not causing it.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-04-19 01:09  

#1  Good, they're treated like shit.
So don't send them back.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-04-19 00:23  

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