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| Resettle the North Korean Refugees |
| 2009-06-18 |
| By Paul Wolfowitz North Korea's highest court recently sentenced two American journalists to 12 years hard labor for attempting to report on the plight of North Korean refugees in China. Those refugees are fleeing a humanitarian catastrophe caused by a regime that has allowed more than one million people to die of starvation and killed 400,000 more over 30 years in its gulag-style prison camps. An uncertain number of North Korean refugees -- probably between 100,000 and 400,000 -- live a precarious existence in China, facing the constant threat of forced repatriation. One of those refugees, a woman named Bang Mi Sun who managed to flee a second time after being repatriated and sent to a North Korean labor camp, recently said, "If I had a chance to meet with President Obama, I would first like to tell him how North Korean women are being sold like livestock in China and, second, to know that North Korean labor camps are hell on earth." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 "If I had a chance to meet with President Obama, I would first like to tell him how North Korean women are being sold like livestock in China and, second, to know that North Korean labor camps are hell on earth." 1. You ain't got a snowball's chance in hell of that meeting. 2. He doesn't care. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-06-18 15:38 |