Life or death for hundreds of Koreans will soon be up to Xi Jinping
‘Xi, please let them live!’
The life or death of hundreds of Koreans will soon be up to Xi Jinping.
Credible rumors suggest that the North Korea/China border will open soon – possibly this summer — and that China’s first export to North Korea will be the children, women and men detained in China that fled North Korea.
This border has been shut down since January 22, 2020, when Kim Jong Un, fearing the COVID-19 pandemic, was one of the first national leaders to close their borders. As a result, China has not been able to carry out its illegal and inhumane policy of forcefully repatriating North Koreans back to North Korea to face almost certain torture, detention, and possible execution since leaving the country without permission is a crime punishable by death in North Korea.
The estimate given by humanitarian organizations, and confirmed by the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is that up to 2,000 North Korean children, women, and men are in prison in China right now and that at least half were attempting to get to South Korea. That group is in extreme danger if forcefully repatriated because these families escaped at one of the most difficult times, which means they had to have the resources and the financing for their escape. That means they were either Korean Worker’s Party members or had family in South Korea that paid for their rescue – “crimes” in North Korea that would subject them to torture and public execution.
Xi should consider that whatever momentary influence he will gain with Kim Jong Un by forcing these disenchanted citizens back to suffer under his regime will certainly not be worth the lifetime of hatred that Koreans will have towards Xi for this brutal act.
