| THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: MAY 13, 2002 NEWS JAPAN DEMANDS COMMUNIST CHINA RETURN DETAINED NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES VIDEO SHOWS PRC POLICE TOOK ALL FIVE ESCAPEES FROM INSIDE JAPANESE CONSULATE, THREE NORTH KOREANS MAKE IT INSIDE U.S. CONSULATE, TWO IN CANADIAN EMBASSY The reverberations from the Communist seizing of North Korean refugees inside Japan�s consulate in Shenyang continue to grow. Video cited by the BBC shows that all five of the refugees who tried to get into the Japanese consulate made it in � earlier reports only had two getting inside. Communist police entered the consulate and seized al five, wrestling a woman and child to the ground as staffers watched. According to the BBC and the Washington Post, the government in Tokyo is taking it on the chin for the staffers� lack of action, and for saying three had been stopped at the gate. The Japanese Foreign Minister admitted that the staff�s �reaction could have been a bit different.� However, Japan vehemently denied the Communists� claim that its consulate staff had given police permission to enter the consulate (CNN). Japan also demanded that those arrested �be handed back to Japanese custody,� while South Korea said it would be willing to take them (BBC 2). Meanwhile, three other refugees from the North made it inside the American consulate in Shenyang, and two more entered the Canadian embassy in Beijing over the weekend. The National Post reports that the refugees might prefer the U.S. to South Korea. The �People�s Republic of China� sends all North Korean refugees it finds back to its fellow Communist regime and long-time ally despite the North�s policy of feeding the party and the military while everyone else starves in the near-decade long famine. The Communists have also beefed up security around the embassies to prevent refugees from reaching them (see last NK Report). Also reporting: Cybercast News SOUTH KOREA, U.S. CALL ON NORTH TO RESUME TALKS After canceling talks with South Korea in a fit of pique over a South Korea cabinet member�s comments to the media, North Korea heard pleadings from the South and the U.S. to restart the talks (BBC). The Stalinist regime, meanwhile, added another complaint, as it �angrily rejected claims by the South that one of its dams near the inter-Korean border was about to collapse and flood the South (see last NK Report). COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS EDITORS OF THE WASHINGTON POST RIP COMMUNIST CHINA�S NORTH KOREAN POLICY In Sunday�s lead editorial, the Washington Post aims the rhetorical double-barrel at Communist China�s policy of sending back to North Korea any refugee from the Stalinist regime caught in the PRC. 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. 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. As Communist China�s allies and customers enter the cross-hairs, check out the latest on �Communist China and the Terrorist War,� either directly or via our main 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 you happen to find to the same address. |