by Priya Abraham | [May 27, 2006]
With some 53,000 refugees a year finding new homes in the United States, one group of six in the crowd hardly seems worth noticing. But when they are North Koreans bearing fresh accounts of abuses committed by their communist state and the horrors undergone to escape them, they quickly grab attention.
The six, reportedly four women and two men, touched down on American soil May 5, the first time in more than 50 years the United States has taken North Koreans as refugees. Protection surrounding them and their useful escape route was tight: no names, no identifying the Southeast Asian nation they came through, and no clues to their whereabouts in the United States. Disclosing those details could endanger the refugees' families remaining in North Korea.
From World Magazine, posted on Helping Hands Korea
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