Two North Korean defectors are in the U.S. with the help of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.The UNHCR’s Beijing office says a man in his 20s and a woman in her 30s have been under UN protection since July last year and were granted approval for asylum in the U.S. by Beijing and Washington. [Chosun Ilbo]
The report marks only the second known occasion of the UNHCR performing its assigned mission on behalf of North Korean refugees, and one of the few times our own State Department has actually complied with the North Korean Human Rights Act. The report also notes that other refugees may soon arrive via the same route.
Update: Reader “kumar,” who knows more about the subject than either the Chosun Ilbo or I do, affirms that the UNHCR is not that worthless.
