Posts Tagged Border security

Crackdown filling NKorean prisons with defectors

In this picture taken on Wednesday, May 29, 2013, Park Seong-hyeok, 18, reads a book at his dormitory of the Hangyeore middle-high school in Anseong, south of Seoul, South Korea. Park was 7 when he was taken from his parents and sent to a juvenile detention center. Park’s family was within sight of freedom back in 2003, when they were arrested by Chinese authorities on the Mongolian border and sent back to Pyongyang. After a few months, he managed to escape after his uncle bribed the guards.  With the help of relatives, he made it to South Korea.  But he assumes his parents, who he has not seen in 10 years, remain imprisoned in the north. North Korea's prison population has swelled in recent years with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according to defectors living in South Korea and researchers who study Pyongyang's notorious network of labor camps and detention centers.  (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s prison population has swelled with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according to defectors living in South Korea and researchers who study Pyongyang’s notorious network of labor camps and detention centers.

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Border security at issue in immigration bill

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. gestures as he speaks at a forum on immigration organized by the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bickering across a deep divide, supporters of immigration legislation pushed back hard Wednesday against Republican demands for tougher border security measures before millions living illegally in the country could take the first steps toward U.S. citizenship.

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