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Article: China renews crackdown on North Koreans fleeing homeland
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- Daily Breeze
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- March 26, 2002
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China renews crackdown on North Koreans fleeing homeland
BEIJING -- Chinese authorities are catching North Koreans and
sending them home, police said Monday, launching a crackdown after 25
asylum-seekers were allowed to leave for the rival South in an
incident that embarrassed Beijing.
The roundup follows international appeals for Beijing to give
refugee status to North Koreans fleeing famine andrepression in their
hardline communist homeland. It also comes as South Korea plans to
send a presidential envoy to the North next week for talks marking a
resumption of the reconciliation process on the divided peninsula.
Police and residents in five Chinese towns along the North Korean
border ...