NK Defectors Go On Hunger Strike

Thailand is holding roughly 400 North Korean defectors in their jails and has threatened to return them to North Korea.  Now the defectors are all going on a hunger strike in order to draw attention to their plight and force the South Korean government to help them:

Hundreds of North Korean defectors detained in a Thai immigration detention center have gone on a hunger strike to protest an alleged delay or decline by South Korea in the process of accepting them, activists said Wednesday.

"The South Korean government refused to issue air tickets for unknown reasons, so 100 male and 300 female North Korean defectors started a hunger strike Tuesday evening," said Lee Ho-taek, secretary general of a civic group helping defectors from the North.

The Moral Bankruptcy of the Korean government continues. 

You can read more on this over at One Free Korea.

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Me
17 years ago

Or if anything to prepare them for thier diet once they return to NK

usinkorea
17 years ago

The moral bankruptcy of the AMerican and World media is pretty breath taking too. I couldn't believe how next to no coverage has been given to the North Korea Human Rights Week that is being hosted right in Washington DC…

The Florida Masochis
17 years ago

usinkorea,

They're all too busy waiting for the latest Anna Nicole developments. Didn't you get the memo?

Cheers,

Bill

trackback
17 years ago

Hunger strike in Thailand…

Where there are 400 North Korean Defectors. The South Korean govt. is morally bankrupt….

me
me
17 years ago

No its the Distraction caused by Rosie O'Donnell leaving the "View"

Duh!

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