Tuesday, April 25, 2023

North Korean defectors may face deportation by China as COVID border controls ease

Surveillance footage of the moment a North Korean soldier defects, shown at a press briefing by the United Nations Command at the Defense Ministry in Seoul on Nov. 22, 2017. A North Korean soldier crossed the border into the South in breach of a 1953 armistice agreement, as he pursued a defector who was shot last week, the United Nations Command said.

China usually sends defectors back to North Korea, but Pyongyang wouldn't let them in during the pandemic. That may soon change, and has led to concern among human rights advocates.

(Image credit: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images)

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