Refugees
Before Unhasu Encores, a Memoir
by Adam Cathcart Apart from Escape from Camp 14, this spring’s “must-read” refugee memoir is by Eunsun Kim, 26, whose book,« Corée du Nord, 9 ans pour fuir l’enfer », a collaboration with Le Figaro‘s Sebastian Faletti, just came out in French. (The title translates as “North Korea: 9 Years to Escape from Hell / 逃离地狱–朝鲜9年.”) Unlike […]
Refoulement et l’Espionnage: Recent European Reportage and Analysis on the Refugee Issue
Germany’s media market is particularly good at covering certain East Asian issues. Der Tagesspiegel‘s coverage of the Ai Weiwei affair, for instance, was nothing short of spectacular, and ongoing attention to Japan and China’s memory wars is also top-notch among journalists and writers in Berlin. Add to that a certain German flair for coverage of […]
Between Benign Neglect and Active Deportation: Chinese Policy on North Korean Refugees
Beijing’s role as a regional and international channel for inter-Korean relations has its benefits, and highlights the PRC’s centrality and prestige. At other times, however, that same centrality is a quagmire, as with the refugee issue. How does the CCP regard the refugees, and how has the relevant policy shifted, if at all? What role […]
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop—Recent Activity on the Sino-DPRK Border (Part 2)
Does the North Korean National Security Agency roam the Manchurian frontier to retrieve defectors? Chinese and Korean troops and security personnel crisscrossed the Sino-Korean border with great ease during the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War, but the pretext then was much more extreme: armies of threatening enemy soldiers existed, not handfuls of refugees. […]
“Modern Day Slavery”: The Plight of North Korean Women in China
China’s decision to impose a one-child rule upon most families in 1978 has sprung a number of unintended consequences. The imbalance between men and women has created “thirty-million bachelors” and is stirring fears of future social unrest within China. But the consequences of the one-child policy are also beginning to spread beyond the border, and the […]
Partners
