North Korean Defectors

Choi Min-kyong, a North Korean defector who said she was deported by China four times before making it to South Korea in 2012, and Shin Ju-ye, who fled North Korea in the 1990s and settled in China before defecting to South Korea last year, attend an interview with Reuters in Seoul, South Korea, July 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ju-min Park
China

'Fishing net': Police quotas, surveillance trap North Koreans in China

China has implemented new deportation centres, hundreds of smart facial-recognition cameras and extra boat patrols along its 1,400-kilometre frontier with North Korea, according to a Reuters review...