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TechnoratiBecause of North Korea’s atrocious treatment of its citizens, many in the international community have criticized China’s handling of North Korean refugees. Repatriation of these refugees, critics argue, would be similar to sending them to be tortured or even to their death.
“They (China) stand by and watch as North Korean girls and women are kidnapped and sold and resold as sex slaves,” KCC president Sohn said.
“They stand by and watch as North Koreans work as slaves for shelter and food. And when these North Korean refugees seek help from the authorities, or ask to be sent to a third country that is willing and to accept them, they repatriate them back to North Korea, where five out of six are murdered in prison.
“China is responsible for all of these abuses and for the murder by the North Korean government of numerous refugees,” Sohn stated.
Those that call for an end to China’s repatriation of the refugees point out that many countries welcome the North Koreans to resettle in their land. Both the United States and South Korea have welcomed North Korean refugees to settle in their country, but China has employed many tactics to block the refugees from escaping to these third countries.
Both U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain recently issued letters to the KCC expressing their support of defending the human rights of North Korean refugees. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in a letter dated Thursday also voiced her dismay at the “inhumane” conditions in North Korea and China and the suffering of North Korean refugees.
Other U.S. senators have also expressed their support of KCC’s effort to improve the treatment of North Korean refugees.
It is believed at least 500,000 North Koreans have crossed the border over to China in the past 10 years.
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