N. Korean Defectors Tell U.N. Probe of Horrors of Escape U.N. investigators probing human rights abuses in North Korea heard harrowing evidence in London on Wednesday from people who have managed to flee the secretive Stalinist regime. The landmark U.N. rights commission heard from a handful of defectors who have reached Europe after similar hearings were held in Seoul and Tokyo. Jihyuan Park, a softly-spoken, bespectacled woman in her thirties, wept as she told how she managed to cross the border into China in 1998, only to be sold as a wife to a Chinese gambler and his family. The first thing they told me was that, since theyd bought me, they could do anything to me, she told the panel through a translator. naharnet/stories/en/103119-n-korean-defectors-tell-u-n-probe-of-horrors-of-escape
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:32:36 +0000
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