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N. Korea Chemicals Expert Said Detained in China |
2003-09-06 |
A North Korean biological weapons expert has been detained while trying to slip into the Australian consulate in China’s southern city of Guangzhou to seek political asylum, an anti-Pyongyang activist said on Saturday. Norbert Vollertsen, a German doctor-turned-activist, said plainclothes security agents had detained Ri Chae Woo, who planned to testify in the United States against Pyongyang’s chemical and biological weapons program. I’ll bet that seriously upset the Chinese. Vollertsen, quoted on a human rights Web site, said Ri had evidence of human experiments in North Korea. Oh, Lord, does the depravity there have a bottom? While North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has been a top international concern recently, the Rats, that close. Guangzhou police declined to comment, and the Australian consulate was not immediately available for comment. Activists say up to 300,000 North Korean refugees are hiding in northeast China after slipping across the border to flee hunger, poverty and repression in their Communist homeland. Defectors say North Korean refugees who are sent home face imprisonment, torture or death. Ri’s a dead man within minutes if they send him back. China has an agreement with its neighbor to repatriate North Koreans, whom it views as economic migrants not refugees. But to avert Western criticism, China has allowed many North Korean asylum seekers to leave for South Korea via third countries. Last year, more than 1,000 North Koreans reached South Korea via China and other countries. Since last year, China has allowed more than 150 asylum seekers, who have fled to foreign embassies and schools in China, to leave and ultimately reach South Korea. |
Posted by:Steve White |
#3 Human experiments? Faster, please. |
Posted by: Sade 2003-9-6 4:25:06 PM |
#2 Glad the guy only made it to China. If he had made it to freedom NK might have threatened us all. |
Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-6 1:10:42 PM |
#1 " Vollertsen, quoted on a human rights Web site, said Ri had evidence of human experiments in North Korea " That explains Kimmmys looks. He got too close during a |
Posted by: Charles 2003-9-6 3:27:32 AM |