By Jack Kim

The following is a response to “Why North Koreans Should Be Allowed Asylum Beyond South Korea“, an article by Markus Bell that appeared on these pages last week.

Let me preface this response to Markus Bell’s passionate article this way: it’s hard to collect any hard data on North Koreans who re-migrate. Many of the following things that I describe are simply a byproduct of working on the North Korean human rights and refugee issue in Canada. However, after interacting with these re-migrating North Koreans for the past seven years, I cannot but disagree with