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China-Japan-Koreas
N. Korea tells S. Korea to hand over refugees
2011-06-17
[Straits Times] NORTH Korea on Thursday demanded the return of nine apparent defectors who crossed into South Korean territorial waters in a rowing boat, Seoul officials said.

'North Korea's Red Thingy sent a message to the South Korean Red Thingy and demanded that the South return the nine people at an early date,' the unification ministry, which handles cross-border affairs, said in a statement.

The South says the nine are free to choose whether to stay or to return home.

The three men, two women and four children - family members of two brothers - rowed across the tense Yellow Sea border last Saturday.

Media reports say they expressed a desire to defect from their impoverished homeland, which is beset by persistent severe food shortages.

'What's most important is their own free will, whether they want to return home or stay here,' foreign ministry front man Cho Byung Jae said earlier Thursday.
Posted by:Fred

#3  #1 it must be remembered that, in addition to preserving Kim family ruling power + Govt-State dominance of NOKOR Socialist movement, CHINA DID NOT WANT US-WESTERN STYLE GOVT. IN ITS NOKOR VASSAL STATE EVEN IT WAS A [Democratic]SOCIALIST GOVT.

Smacked of suppor the return of the
"white/foreign devils" = "Weak China" [19th Century Manchu/Qian China], + made it easier for Beijing + Cold War PLA to assume the functions, powers of ordinary NOKOR Governance in time of War [US-China = "Korean War II", China-vs-USSR-vs-US].

ION WAFF > NORTH KOREA TESTS "SUPER-EMP" NUKE, as per under the guise of its alleged recent dev of "miniature" Nuclear Warheads???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-17 21:06  

#2  Whatever Norka wants Norka gets. I see obama food aid in the near future.

Norkia: worlds largest importer of French Cognac. While the people make soup out of tree bark.
Posted by: Whock Darling of the Welsh2846   2011-06-17 18:18  

#1  "Let's face it, that starving concentration camp of slaves that you call a nation has a population that is 95% convinced that it wants to live anywhere else than under your murderous and incompetent control. So here's a bright idea: instead of buying weapons to threaten everyone else, why don't you just feed your own people for a change, or does that make too much sense even to the lizard portion of your brains?"
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-06-17 10:46  

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