A 'large number' of North Koreans appear to have been repatriated from China, Seoul's unification ministry said Friday, confirming claims made by multiple rights groups.
In this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, a North Korean flag flutters in the wind at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea on October 4, 2022. North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile on October 4, which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said, a significant escalation as Pyongyang ramps up its record-breaking weapons-testing blitz.
"It appears to be true that a large number of North Korean residents were repatriated to North Korea from the three northeastern provinces of China," unification ministry spokesman Koo Byoung-sam told reporters, without giving an exact number. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Thursday declined to address specific deportation claims, saying there was"no such thing as so-called 'North Korean defectors' in China".
Human Rights Watch separately said Beijing had"forcibly returned" more than 500 North Koreans to their home country. Elizabeth Salmon, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, has estimated that approximately 2,000 North Korean defectors are currently being held in China. "The Chinese government should provide UN authorities with access to North Korean detainees and either grant North Koreans refugee status or give them safe passage to South Korea or other countries."LIST: Catch up with your best bud this month with these super buy 1 get 1 dealsYour walkthrough to achieving stunning portraits with vivo V29 5G’s Aura Light 2.
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