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- Korea's Gateway? // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);5/20/2002, Vol. 139 Issue 20, p2
Discusses refugees from North Korea who are seeking safety in South Korea by fleeing to embassies in China. Story of a family who sought asylum in the Japanese Consulate; Way that China often returns refugees to North Korea, where they face prison and punishment; Policy of China toward refugees.
- Korea's Gateway? // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);5/20/2002, Vol. 139 Issue 20, p4
Discusses refugees from North Korea who are seeking safety in South Korea by fleeing to embassies in China. Story of a family who sought asylum in the Japanese Consulate; Way that China often returns refugees to North Korea, where they face prison and punishment; Policy of China toward refugees.
- Borderline Case in China. // Foreign Policy;Jul/Aug2004, Issue 143, p17
Reports on the exodus of North Koreans to China. Numbers of Koreans fleeing to China; Opposition to the immigrants by the Chinese government; Jailing of refugees forced back to North Korea; Release of prisoners by North Korean government due to lack of food.
- EX-GIS TELL OF KOREA KILLINGS IN JULY 1950. // International Journal on World Peace;Dec99, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p87
The article reports on killings of South Korean civilian refugees in July 1950. According to press report nearly 200-400 South Korean civilian refugees were killed by American soldiers in July 1950. The report, pieced together from declassified documents and a series of interviews with ex-Korean...
- Attribute of "Asexuality" in Korean Kinship and Sundered Koreans during the Korean War. Choong Soon Kim // Journal of Comparative Family Studies;Autumn89, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p309
On the basis of the anthropological fieldwork on sundered Korean families whose dispersal took place during the Korean War (1950-1953), this article delineates the attribute of "asexuality (the condition of having no connection with sex)" and its function in Korean kinship. Since Korean kinship...
- REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING THE KOREAN WAR IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA. HYEON JU LEE // Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Socie;Summer2010, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p48
The Korean War had no official ending and has continued in a form of Cold War since 1953, the year the cease-fire agreement was signed, and yet, during the past five decades, it appears to have faded from South Korean memory. Anti-communism became a national ideology in post-war South Korea. For...
- Between Defector and Migrant: Identities and Strategies of North Koreans in South Korea. Byung-Ho Chung // Korean Studies;Jan2008, Vol. 32, p1
The article evaluates the structural conditions and individual schemes of North Koreans in South Korea. It offers a historical explanation on the changing social definitions and policies toward North Korean border-crossers and how the varying conditions have influenced their lives and...
- Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War. Lee, Hyeon Ju // Korean Studies;Jan2009, Vol. 33, p164
The article reviews the book "Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War," by Grace M. Cho.
- Defining the Limits of the North Korean Human Rights Act: A Security and Legal Perspective. Jaeho Hwang; Kim, Jasper // East Asia: An International Quarterly;Winter2006, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p45
The introduction of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (HR 4011 or the Act) was hailed by many in the U.S. Congress as a significant and much-needed legislative effort that would substantially improve the human rights conditions of North Korea, considered to be one of the most...
