Current Events > China sends back North Koreans to North Korea despite family BEGGING them not to

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42156449

China has sent back a group of North Korean defectors, including a child, despite a desperate plea by one of their relatives, the BBC understands.

The group of 10 was detained in China in early November after secretly crossing the border.

One man already himself in exile, whose wife and four-year-old son were among those held, had said they could be killed if made to return.

He now says the group's claim for asylum was not considered by China.

He has learned they were then sent to a detention centre in North Korea, where, according to a spokesman for the charity Human Rights Watch (HRW), "they are doomed".

Neither China nor South Korea has commented on the group's fate.

Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for HRW, said that by returning the group, China was "complicit in the torture, forced labour, imprisonment and other abuses they will suffer".

"They are doomed and Beijing's refusal to protect them and treat them as refugees fleeing persecution is precisely the reason why."
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Something doesn't seem right here.
In Japan, it's pretty much the opposite story, if they make it there alive:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/asia/north-korea-japan-ship/index.html

Several North Korean fishermen rescued earlier this month by Japanese authorities were also returned to the country, on their request, officials said, indicating that at least some of those washing up on their neighboring nation's shores are not attempting to flee there.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Something doesn't seem right here.
In Japan, it's pretty much the opposite story, if they make it there alive:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/asia/north-korea-japan-ship/index.html

Several North Korean fishermen rescued earlier this month by Japanese authorities were also returned to the country, on their request, officials said, indicating that at least some of those washing up on their neighboring nation's shores are not attempting to flee there.

it says they wanted to go back. They probably got word that their family was going to be executed unless they returned.

It's also possible, although unlikely, that they got wrecked in a storm and were picked up by Japan's coast guard and never even tried to defect.
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In other news, water is wet.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Something doesn't seem right here.
In Japan, it's pretty much the opposite story, if they make it there alive:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/asia/north-korea-japan-ship/index.html

Several North Korean fishermen rescued earlier this month by Japanese authorities were also returned to the country, on their request, officials said, indicating that at least some of those washing up on their neighboring nation's shores are not attempting to flee there.

You don't get out of NK before steeling yourself that all of your family members and relatives left behind will be worse than dead once you escape.

Accidental wash-ups like fishermen have obviously not made that resolve.
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Those fishermen were taught since they were children that Japanese people eat children and shit so
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josifrees posted...

Those fishermen were taught since they were children that Japanese people eat children and shit so

And then, there's the tentacle monsters...

It's OK when Trump does it

Fuck China, they're just as despicable as NK for doing this.
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Usually they send the men back and keep the women/children to be sold.
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