Archive for May 8th, 2002

Tape of Failed Defection Touches a Nerve in Asia

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 […]