China breaks international law
- June 18, 2002
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I read an article the other day stating that Chinese guards ran into the South Korean embassy to capture a North Korean refugee and his son who had run in earlier. Along the way they beat up some Korean embassy workers who were trying to protect the refugees. The Chinese captured the father, but the son escaped.
I can’t believe China had the audacity to do something like that! That’s breaking international law. It’s the same thing as invading a foreign country to capture escaped refugees. The Korean embassy is Korean soil, not Chinese soil. China is insisting that it was right in its actions, but South Korea is enraged by it… and rightly so.
I have been chatting with a South Korean friend of mine about it, and he says that right now, the World Cup is overshadowing this incident. But once the World Cup is over, it should become more of a hot political topic for South Korea. I hope something gets done about this. Such a blatant breaking of international law should bring international retribution. China should release the North Korean refugee it kidnapped and apologize to the South Koreans.