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...plight of North Korean refugees in South Korea has long been a controversial issue, one that the Seoul government would rather keep out of the newspapers so as not to damage ultrasensitive relations with Pyongyang's high-strung dictator, Kim Jong Il. But hiding refugees from the media became more difficult last week, when 468 North Koreans?the largest group to reach the South since the end of the Korean War?stepped off two jets at a military airport south of Seoul ready to take their place in South Korean society. The group, which had been hiding in Vietnam after...
...already living in the South, and their ranks are expected to grow as conditions in their homeland worsen. But as Yoo testifies, stepping out of a totalitarian time warp and into a high-tech, hyper-competitive society can be the challenge of a lifetime. To help them assimilate, Seoul gives refugees a two-month-long "life-training" course?teaching such things as how to open a bank account?and a $23,000 settlement payment. They also get a monthly income supplement of up to $375 and help with housing...
...rarely welcomed into a South Korean society that views them as unskilled communist rubes. If their integration is viewed as a dress rehearsal for the eventual reunification of the two Koreas, it isn't going well. Says Lee Jung Hoon, an expert on North Korea at Yonsei University in Seoul: "South Korea just isn't ready...
...light years behind in skills such as English, and most North Koreans have never used a computer. Moreover, some have psychological problems from the flight. "Physically and psychologically they aren't very stable," says Lee Ha Young, a psychologist with the French medical-aid group Doctors Without Borders in Seoul...
...links to al-Qaeda went on trial in connection with a wave of violence in March that killed almost 50. No Going Back SOUTH KOREA More than 450 North Koreans arrived on two flights, in what was thought to be the largest defection from the repressive state. Pyongyang accused Seoul of kidnapping its citizens, who travelled into the South via China and Vietnam. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K.... Ring Fenced Bounty hunters were barred from a nature reserve near Liverpool after newspaper reports claimed the fiancé of English soccer star Wayne Rooney had flung her $46,000 engagement ring into...