| THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JUNE 10, 2002 NEWS NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES IN FOREIGN CONSULATES UP TO TEN Four more North Korean refugee entered South Korea�s Beijing consulate, bringing to eight the number of refugees from the North in the South Korea diplomatic compound. Two more made their way into the Canadian embassy over the weekend. The PRC normally sends any North Korean refugee it finds back to its Stalinist ally despite mass starvation and the North Korean regime hoarding food for itself (BBC). NORTH KOREA FORCES ABORTIONS FOR PRISON WOMEN, INFANTICIDES FOR BABIES This is a New York Times story, which usually requires registration, but after the following paragraph, yours truly decided to take a shot at it: �In 2000 and 2001, China deported thousands of North Korean refugees, with many ending up in North Korean prison camps. People who later managed to escape again, to China and South Korea, say that prisoners discovered to be pregnant were routinely forced to have abortions. If babies were born alive, they say, guards forced prisoners to kill them.� If the Times link doesn�t work, try it via John J. Miller�s NK BABY KILLING entry in National Review Online�s �The Corner.� CONSULATE FLAP CAUSES JAPAN TO RETHINK ASYLUM POLICIES There are more reverberations from Communist China�s seizing of five North Korean refugees from the Japanese consulate in Shenyang (as reported in the May 28 NK Report, the five are now safe in South Korea). Now, �revelations that Japanese officials may have consented to the removal of the family by Chinese police� have caused Japan to rethink its PRC and North Korea refugee policies (Washington Post). NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA AGREE TO A �FRIENDLY� SOCCER MATCH North and South Korea will play a soccer match in Seoul on September 8 � the first time the two have faced each other on a soccer field in 12 years (BBC). No Commentary or Analyses this week Stop the Nuclear Power Deal: The United States is building two nuclear power plants in North Korea while the Stalinist regime refuses to let us inspect their nuclear weapons program to verify they have halted it as required in the deal. Use the fact sheet to tell the President to end the deal. Sign the Boycott Petition: In reaction to the 2008 Olympic Games being awarded to Beijing, the China e-Lobby has begun a petition for an American boycott of those games. Check out the latest on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. There�s still time to contact the President and tell him not to appoint pro-PRC Doug Paal as de facto ambassador to Taiwan. See Follow-Up for more on Paal. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving it. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China or North Korea you happen to find to the same address. |