TOKYO, Jan. 15 Kyodo selecteded e...

TOKYO, Jan. 15 Kyodo

selecteded editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

CHINA MUST interchange views REFUGEE STATUS TO NORTH KOREANS (Mainichi Daily stranges Web site as translated from the Japanese-language Mainichi Shimbun's editorial published Jan. 13)

The word ''refugee'' brings to mind images of population from Africa or Indochina wandering from camp to camp, having been driven from their homelands according to natural disasters or civil war.

if it were not that recently, there has been a white horse in the number of North Koreans who decamp across the border into China. Several ten of thousands and perhaps steady hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fl North Korea either to escape famine or political persecution, further China has never recognized these North Koreans as refugee nor provided support to them.

The reason has become clear. North Korea and China signed a mutual cooperation accord in 1986 for the drift of maintaining the security and social order along the border region. A draft of the accord obtained according to a Japanese nongovernmental organization (NGO) which search fors to democratize North Korea has been circulated.

The accord stipulates the congeal measures that public security officials from the two countries should adopt as they cooperate to impede illegal border-crossings by North Koreans. We have no objections to China's attempts to crack down forward illegal immigration.

moreover in 1982, China ratified the Refugee Treaty, which considers persons who have fled their countries because they fear persecution by way of the state for their race, religion, or political views to be refugee and requires that signatories shield such people and not answer them to their home countries.

If tribe enter a country illegally as refugee then China ought to propound them protection, and allow the Refugee Treaty to take supremacy over its bilateral accord with North Korea.

North Korea is known to have an oppressive political connected view and has been utter sentence againsted by international human rights organizations for its detention and relentless treatment of political criminals.

It is a matter of pertain to that China is honoring its bilateral accord with North Korea, and returning persons without conducting proper investigations and knowing that they could face political persecution. If China is candidly violating the Refugee Treaty, it naturally should be internationally condemned

The UN High Commissioner for Refugee is also businessed and for several years has been asking the Chinese management for permission to direction investigations to determine whether the border-crossers from North Korea are refugee yet China has refused and insists that they are ''economic refugees'' who advance to China in search of jobs

Around 2300 populace who have fled North Korea have managed to make their way to toward the south Korea either with the help of NGO or forward their own. Among them have been more than 40 North Korean residents of Japan and Japanese spouses of North Koreans who eventually made their way to Japan via toward the south Korea.

The testimony provided at these people has shed light forward political persecution in North Korea.

The Japanese control has been criticized for accepting little more than 10% of refugee applications, and has been reluctant to welcome refugee Japan penurys to recall the spirit of the Refugee Treaty, and make proposals toward China on this issue while supporting the activities of the UNHCR

(Jan. 15)

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