Monday, October 16, 2006
Relative Good News from China
Not only is China searching vehicles crossing the China/North Korea border, but they have stepped up construction of a border fence. Now, why would they do that? Are they preparing for millions of refugees seeking relative safety in China? Are they foreseeing an end to Kim Jung Il's reign as son/dictator?
Money quotes from the CBS story:
In a sign of Beijing's wariness about refugees, construction of a massive concrete and barbed wire fence along parts of its 880-mile border with the North has picked up in recent days. Scores of soldiers have arrived in communities along the banks of the Yalu River, up from Dandong, over the past week to erect the barrier, farmers and visitors to the area said.
"The move is mainly aimed at North Korean defectors," said Professor Kim Woo-jun at the Institute of East and West Studies in Seoul, South Korea. "As the U.N. sanctions are enforced ... the number of defectors are likely to increase as the regime can't take care of its people."
The Chinese started on an earnest border barrier earlier this summer.
Money quotes from the CBS story:
In a sign of Beijing's wariness about refugees, construction of a massive concrete and barbed wire fence along parts of its 880-mile border with the North has picked up in recent days. Scores of soldiers have arrived in communities along the banks of the Yalu River, up from Dandong, over the past week to erect the barrier, farmers and visitors to the area said.
"The move is mainly aimed at North Korean defectors," said Professor Kim Woo-jun at the Institute of East and West Studies in Seoul, South Korea. "As the U.N. sanctions are enforced ... the number of defectors are likely to increase as the regime can't take care of its people."
The Chinese started on an earnest border barrier earlier this summer.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:06 PM 
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But didn't the International Court of Justice opine that the building of border fences was illegal, unethical, immoral, and just plain nasty? I believe that the chief justice of that court is Chinese.
Maybe instead of "illegal aliens" we should start calling these folks defectors.
Maybe instead of "illegal aliens" we should start calling these folks defectors.
The anti-Israel bias in the World still hurts, doesn't it? I do like your idea though, defectors from Mexican socialism it is.
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