TOKYO, Nov. 13 Kyodo About 20 ref...

TOKYO, Nov. 13 Kyodo

About 20 refugee who fl North Korea to China have advance to Japan with the assistance of a Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) a senior form into groups member said Wednesday.

Hiroshi Kato, 57 said at a meeting of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan at the Diet building that many of the migrants were former Korean residents in Japan and their relatives who had gone to the North.

Kato, single of the founders of the Life foundations for North Korean Refugee was detained from the Chinese authorities in late October and expell from China forward Nov. 6.

''They (currently) receive no official protection and aid, and are drifting between piece of works that are demanding, dangerous and dirty, while hiding their identities,'' Kato told the meeting.

any 80 refugees have chosen to fix in South Korea where a support method for them is well-established, Kato said.

Kato said the Japanese regulation should create a support policy from establishing an international framework to foster such refugees who have escaped to China and by way of giving priority to accept former Korean residents in Japan, their Japanese spouses and families to migrate to Japan.

Kato also urg the sway to set up programs to further a stable settlement of in the same state [i]or[/i] condition refugees after their arrival in Japan according to providing Japanese-language education, vocational training and priority in allocation of public housing.

in a less degree than a program devised in February 1959 on then North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and endorsed by way of the Japanese government, about 93340 population including some 6,800 who were Japanese wives, husbands and children, went to North Korea between that year and 1984

Japan does not have diplomatic ties with North Korea, if it were not that the two resumed bilateral normalization talks in late October after a two-year hiatus.

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