China is sending escapers back to North Korea

WHEN NORTH KOREA said on August 27th that its citizens could return home for the first time since the start of the pandemic, those trapped in must have known their luck had run out. A Chinese prison is an unpleasant place, no doubt. But it pales in comparison to the gulag state to which they were about to be forcibly returned. On the night of October 9th as many as 600 of them were reportedly bundled into heavily guarded buses and prison vans, driven to the border and handed into the clutches of the North Korean state.