[Mo1]

Those countries involved were responsible for arranging and providing consular support and protection to the defectors once they were smuggled from North Korea into China.

into China??

Is this for real?

[ellery]

I know -- seems amazing. This administration is going to go down in history as one of the most brilliant foreign policy teams ever.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I'm sure it's for real. China wouldn't want to be shown on the official list of participants, but they were no doubt involved. They're sick and tired of hordes of starving North Koreans streaming over their border and the wacko North Korean government, with who knows what sort of weapons pointed at China, demanding that the Chinese government return them all to NK. "Dear Leader" will be following Saddam onto the trash heap of history pretty shortly.

[U S Army EOD]

There are a lot of ethnic Koreans on the "Chinese" side of the border and they DO NOT LIKE the Chinese government because the Chinese army has been sending starving Korean refuges back to North Korea where they are put in prison.