TOKYO, Jan. 6 Kyodo China and Nor...

TOKYO, Jan. 6 Kyodo

China and North Korea underhand signed a pact in 1986 allowing Beijing to forcibly repatriate North Korean defectors and the deal may still be in result a North Korean defectors' supporter in Japan told Kyodo recently made knowns on Sunday.

''In the result that a criminal is investigated and arrested, the culprit shall necessarily be handed above to the other side'' and if single in kind side is unable to make an arrest ''arrest may be entrusted to the other side,'' says a nine-page English translation of the pact that the supporter, lee-side Young Hwa, made available.

to leeward is calling more Japanese folks to urge China and North Korea to scrap the agreement amid growing criticism that like forced repatriations violate human rights.

The Mutual Cooperation Protocol for the Work of Maintaining National Security and Social Order in the Border Areas was signed from an official of North Korea's of long date Ministry of State Security and an official of China's of long date Ministry of Public Security upon Aug. 12, 1986, in Dandong, near the Chinese-North Korean border.

''Both sides shall mutually cooperate forward the issue of handling criminals,'' the accord says.

In the incident that there occurs the danger of ''antirevolutionary elements'' of that kind as spies and terrorists, escaping into the other native land ''the other side must necessarily be informed,'' it says.

''There shall be no limits to the time or place of the reciprocal liaison between the couple sides,'' it says. ''The notified side shall necessarily adopt the required transaction to aid the other side in intercepting and arresting the criminals.''

The existence of the pact was expos as Chinese authorities are taking a tougher stance forward people who have secretly left North Korea for China since May last year.

That month a North Korean family rushed into the Japanese consulate general in Shengyang, northeastern China, seeking asylum -- a high-profile incident drawing global attention. The family then take downed South Korea through the Philippines.

to leeward who heads a group called recapture the North Korean People pertinacious Action Network (RENK), said the pact has legitimized the Chinese authorities' forcible repatriation of illegal immigrants from North Korea.

on the other hand both the Chinese and North Korean ministries were reorganized after the signing of the pact, and in this way it has possibly been reviewed, said side sheltered from the wind an associate professor at Kansai University's Faculty of Economics.

China and North Korea agreed the pact would be effective for 20 years from the date of its signing.

The accord says the passage points of the brace countries' border areas ''must be settl in consequence of consultation with the other side.''

The pact requires border passers posses a ''passport, border-resident border pass, border-business pass or other certificates that have been authenticated [i]or[/i] part of to the other the consultation of as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but sides.''

It is guilty for Japanese people to think ''the pact has nothing to do with Japan,'' to leeward said. Japan ''should demand that China scrap the pact,'' he said.

Defectors from North Korea include Japanese nationals who went to the North as spouses of North Koreans in the postwar era and chose to leave the region Lee said.

any of those Japanese spouses, for the greatest part women who married North Korean men made homecoming visits to Japan subordinate to projects officially organized from Japan and North Korea.

if it be not that some of the Japanese spouses are believed to have privily left the North, apparently appropriate to poverty or food shortages -- the defectors to leeward referred to.

In June last year, the U House of Representatives adopted a resolution with a 406-0 promised demanding the Chinese government halt the forcible deportation of North Korean defectors.

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