The time is right to encourage Beijing to reevaluate its policy of forcibly returning N. Korean refugees, which is in conformity with its treaty with Pyongyang but is in contravention to human rights norms. In recent months, there has been a rise in N. Koreans seeking asylum at various embassies in China. Accordingly, there […]

By Barbara Demick
Los Angeles Times
May 14, 2002
SEOUL — Over and over, television news programs play footage of a pigtailed 2-year-old in pink overalls watching in terror as her mother and grandmother, North Korean defectors seeking asylum at a diplomatic mission in China, are wrestled to the ground and arrested by Chinese police.

If a picture […]