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(August 27, 2001) 'Studies on North' - Updated 'VANTAGE POINT'(Sep. . Studies on North Korea - EAR(Autumn), Vantage Point(Oct. 16, 2001) 'Focal Point' - added 'Request for Early Realization of Postponed Reunion of Separated Families'(Nov. 24, 2001) 'North Korea Today - political system' - added 'Local Administrative Bodies'. |
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Return to Consular Information Sheets and Travel Warnings Page . . Tourism in North Korea is permitted only in officially organized groups authorized by the Government of North Korea. A broad spectrum of countries, including the United States, has contributed to international relief efforts. Government therefore cannot provide normal consular protective services to U. |
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Civic groups say it is becoming riskier and tougher for North Koreans to flee their country and that an uncertain future awaits them, even if they do succeed. . Plea to help North Korean refugees low graphics version . I don't think they will completely ignore or can disregard the wishes of nearly 12m Korean people Former South Korean ambassador Park Keun It urges the world body to put pressure on member countries to grant official refugee status to North Koreans who have fled their homeland, escaping political persecution or starvation. The petition was organised by a non-governmental group, The Commission to Help North Korean Refugees, which delivered the first part of the petition with nearly three million signatures to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva 17 months ago The petition wants the UN to recognise North Korean escapees as legal refugees under international law. |
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. Any comments and scholarly contributions to the pertinent topics are most welcome. Korea Twenty North Koreans recently arrived in Seoul after escaping their impoverished communist homeland, South Korea's main intelligence agency said Friday. The defectors included six laborers, 12 students and one infant, the National Intelligence Service said in a news release. After fleeing the North, they lived in hiding in an unidentified third country, seeking an opportunity to travel to the South, the agency said. |
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