Passage: North Koreans who risk imprisonment and torture to flee the impoverished Stalinist state also face repatriation if caught by China and a hostile reception if they reach South Korea, rights activists said Thursday. Marcus Noland and Andrei Lankov, two of the co-authors of a new report, urged Beijing and Seoul to alleviate the plight of the refugees, estimated to number between tens to hundreds of thousands.
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