By Not much good news comes from Burma, but this sure is:
Nineteen North Koreans have been released from detention in Myanmar and sent to Thailand, Burmese officials told the U.S.-funded Voice of America news service Thursday.
The suspected defectors were detained in Myanmar in early December while trying to flee to South Korea through China and Southeast Asia.
Other news agencies said the defectors included 15 women and a 7-year-old boy.
South Korean officials told Voice of America they would be welcomed in South Korea.
According to VOA, about 14,000 defectors from North Korea have been resettled in South Korea, where the constitution automatically recognizes them as citizens. Tens of thousands more are living illegally in China, VOA reported, where they are not recognized as refugees. [CNN]
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
2:51 am on January 2nd, 2009 1
I'm surprised. Burma allowed hundreds of thousands to die from Cyclone Nargis by refusing international aid for weeks after the cyclone hit.