On the Issue of the Construction for the North Korean Refugee Shelter in Mongolia

Abstract

Now lots of North Korean Refugees have taken into main China and the other South East Asia countries. They are "hidden refugees" because any countries dosen't have any accurate policiy to protect them. No countriy has recognized they are refugees in the context of international law. Especially, main China which should protect them doesn't have any policiy for the North Korean refugee, and rather main China has the policy to have deported them back enforcedly to North Korea. It is very clear that they would be enforced into secret gulag and punished. North Korea and China have invoded the human right of North Korean refugees. So, some NPO have the plan to construct the shelter for North Korean refugees in Mongolia with the eye-masked permission by Mongolia government. This plan means that "hidden refugees" will be put on the surface in international communities. This plan has the possibility of conflict with the other counties, which have the policy to "protect the increase of refugees". But this plan has produced by the necessity of the security of human right of North Korean refugees. This thesis seeks the significance of the construction of the shelter for North Korean refugees in Mongolia under these conditions. It is the maneuver of Mongolia that is not only to protect them in order to get the international positioning in East Asia but also to use these hidden refugees for its national interest. This aspect shows us that the hidden refugees are not the burden but the factor of getting the national interest for the protecting countries.