U.N. Urges `China to Acknowledge NK Defectors As Refugees`

U.N.`s Committee on the Elimination of Race Discrimination recommended China to treat the North Korean defectors as equal status as the refugees, expressing its worries about the Chinese rejection against the acknowledgement of the North Korean defectors as refugees and the recent forced repatriation of them to the North.

The Committee also advised China, for its implementation, to prepare the reasonable standard to judge the refugee status by the law or the administrative regulations.

The Committee also expressed special concerns in the report of the evaluation on the political asylums that China has rejected to admit them as refugees even though the UNHCR had confirmed their refugee status.