Nonostante il rischio di morte nel valicare confini tra i piu' controllati al mondo, 200 persone sono riuscite a sfuggire dalle famine, carestie, e poverta' del paradiso comunista nord coreano, verso l'inferno capitalista del sud (dove la gente e' andata da avere standard di vita' poverissimi a standard simili a quelli europei).
Sono contento per loro.
Another 200 N Korean refugees arrive in South
INCHON, South Korea, July 28 (Reuters) - More than 200 North Koreans flew into South Korea on Wednesday, the second day of a secretive operation that has spirited refugees from the communist North from an unidentified Southeast Asian country.
The new arrivals followed a similar number that reached South Korea on Tuesday, the biggest single batch ever among the thousands that have fled famine and repression in their isolated homeland since the late 1990s.
The chartered plane which arrived on Wednesday flew into Inchon International Airport, the main airport that serves the capital Seoul, government and airline officials said.
It operated under the same veil of secrecy in which the previous day's refugees were whisked through a military airport in Sungnam, south of Seoul. A Reuters photographer said the plane was parked at a remote section of the sprawling seaside airfield.
The South Korean government, which has been working behind the scenes to bring the refugees to Seoul, has been tight-lipped about the process and declined to confirm where the chartered Korean Air plane had come from, or who was on board.
However, sources in Vietnam said North Korean refugees had been gathering in southern Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, after trickling over the border from China for months.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted government sources as saying on Tuesday that the exodus was arranged by the Seoul government in May after frustrated refugees started threatening suicide over conditions in crowded safe houses.
South Korean sources said the backlog accounted for more than one year of refugee arrivals in the Southeast Asian country.
The countries involved appeared to be aiming for secrecy to ensure nothing went awry with any operation through a communist country that has friendly ties with the North.
Thousands of North Koreans have fled to the South in recent years from the communist state, which has been condemned by the United Nations for human rights violations.
After decades of only a handful of arrivals, the number who settled in South Korea jumped to 312 in 2000 and then soared, with more than 1,000 arriving both in 2002 and 2003. In the first half of this year, South Korean took in 760 refugees.
At least a million people are believed to have died of starvation in North Korea while Pyongyang diverted resources to develop weapons of mass destruction, including the nuclear arms programme at the centre of a long-running diplomatic crisis.
Fonte: www.ft.com





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