| THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: MAY 20, 2002 NEWS REFUGEES IN CANADIAN EMBASSY FLOWN TO SOUTH KOREA FATE OF THE JAPANESE CONSULATE FIVE STILL UP IN THE AIR A pair of North Korean refugees who made it into the Canadian Embassy in Beijing have flown to South Korea (CNN). There was no such good news on the five refugees whom Communist police seized from inside the Japanese consulate in Shenyang (see last update), with the PRC refusing to either release the five North Koreans or apologize to Japan for invading its sovereign territory. Communist China sends back any refugee from its Stalinist ally that it finds � even though this usually means imprisonment, torture, or starvation. Tens of thousands of North Koreans are hiding in the PRC after having escaped a regime that hordes international food aid for itself and its military as the people continue to suffer a near-decade long famine. Also reporting: Cybercast News VOLLERTSEN SAYS �THOUSANDS� OF REFUGEES WILL COME TO WORLD CUP Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, the former aid worker in North Korea who became an anti-Communist activist after seeing how the Stalinist regime stole international food aid from its own people, said he would bring �thousands� of Northern refugees to South Korea when the World Cup start this month (BBC). NORTH KOREAN LEADER SAYS HE WILL VISIT THE SOUTH Kim Jong-Il, the leader of the Stalinist North Korea, repeated a two-year-old pledge to visit the South in a meeting with Park Geun-hye, daughter of the late South Korean President Park Chung-hee (BBC). Kim�s father, North Korean founder Kim Il-sung, killed Park�s mother in a botched 1974 attempt on the then-President�s life. Also reporting: Los Angeles Times NORTH KOREA SIGNS TOURIST DEALS North Korea signed a number of tourist accords with the World Tourist Organization last week (BBC). Sadly, they all involved outsiders coming into the North, not captives of the Stalinist regime being allowed to leave. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS IN NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES, COMMUNISTS SEE EAST GREMANY 1989 Remember how East Germans escaping to the West through Hungary led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989? Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (BBC) does, and he reminds us that Communist China does too, which is in part why the PRC sends every North Korean refugee they find back to the Stalinist regime. Barbara Demick, of the Los Angeles Times, also weighs in. WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL INCLUDES ACCOUNT FROM REFUGEES The editors of the Washington Times use harrowing accounts of life in North Korea from the refugees themselves to explain why so many are �literally running for their lives.� BBC CORRESPONDENT GETS GUIDED TOUR, AND IS STUNNED AT WHAT HE DOESN�T SEE Adam Brookes of the BBC takes the guided tour of North Korea, and leaves mortified by the complete lack of spontaneity and the �unnerving stillness� of the Stalinist regime�s capital city. 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. 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 you happen to find to the same address. |