N. Korea: U.S. Draft Bill to Punish China for Deporting N.Koreans

Chosun Ilbo ^ | 10/12/05

[TigerLikesRooster]

U.S. Draft Bill to Punish China for Deporting N.Koreans

With China’s deportation of North Korean defectors to their Stalinist homeland looming like a black cloud over Seoul-Beijing ties, some U.S. lawmakers and activists are drawing up a bill to impose trade sanctions on China unless it stops the practice.

Washington has warned Beijing of punitive measures if it continues to deport North Korean refugees but has so far taken no legislative action.

Activists including the Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees hold a press conference urging Bejing to stop repatriating North Korean defectors, in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday morning.

Under the draft bill, the U.S would freeze imports from China at the 2003 level and reduce them if Beijing continues to violate international treaties on refugees, impede access by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and fails to stop trafficking of North Korean women.

The bill, dubbed the Scoop Jackson National Security and Freedom Act 2005, is modeled after the Jackson-Vanik bill that imposed trade sanctions on the Soviet Union in 1975, in what lawmakers believe enabled the mass migration of Russian Jews to Israel and the U.S.

[TigerLikesRooster]

If it passes, it will be a great news. I am sure that Google, Yahoo!, Cisco, and Microsoft would be deeply saddened to see their Chicom overlord go crancky.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[nuconvert]

I hope this happens fast.

[Mamzelle]

South Korea ought to be required to take in these refugees. I might add to your remark about the internet servers--SK has a big stake in China as well.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

Correction: deeply saddened to see their Chicom overlord go crancky --> deeply saddened to see their Chicom overlord go cranky

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #4

Well, if China can be cornered, N. Korea is a toast. The S. Korean pinko government would also lose its leverage against U.S., as you said.

[drypowder]

The US has the same problem with Mexico so wouldn't China have the same right to put sanctions on US trade if we deport Mexicans? I'm not clear on a distinctive difference, if one exists.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #7

There is no punishment waiting for Mexicans deported from U.S.. On the contrary, Mexican government would rather want Mexicans to go north for multiple reasons.

[drypowder]

It makes more sence to me to punish NK for that practice, not China.

[Mi-kha-el]

Illegal immigrants are not political refugees.

[sgtbono2002]

If I am reading this right these people defected to China because of political reasons or they were trying to improve their life. If China sends them back , they are off to the Gulags or death camps. Now why anyone would think China is that much better than N Korea I dont know , but evidently they did.

Mexicans sent home arent punished , just put back on the bus to another border city to cross again.

[s_asher]

So who's going to determine if the North Koreans who cross the border are illegal immigrants or political refugees? If we're forcing China not to deport them, are the Chinese going to send these North Koreans to America?

[SevenofNine]

Of course also JIMMY Carter AL Gore and rest of Demos


Rack Dubya for lay smackdown on China yeah hey China get with the program send North Korean back to Chia pet regime SHAME ON YOU

[ncountylee]

Wet feet go back to Fidel's loving arms!

[dufekin]

Their Constituion requires South Korea to accept North Koreans as citizens, but government policy does not allow for North Koreans to claim Korean citizenship until and unless they reach South Korean soil.