About the Author
Marie-Laure Verdier
Marie Verdier is a Doctoral Student at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
In recent weeks the international community and human rights groups have worked hard to prevent China from sending North Korean refugees back to North Korea. When repatriated, the refugees are subjected to imprisonment, torture and possibly, execution. But why should we criticize China for disregarding human lives for their own political agenda, when Christian missionaries do the same thing for exactly the same reasons ?