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North Korea
MSF continues to condemn China's forced repatriation of North Koreans and repression of humanitarian aid workers assisting them. It urges the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to demand access to North Koreans held by China and to examine their asylum requests. Active in North Korea from 1995 to 1998, MSF withdrew due to a lack of access to people in need and no independence to carry out its programs. Nonetheless, MSF continues to assist North Koreans. In 2002, MSF provided food and medical aid to around 900 people: shelter, clothing and food for those in hiding along the Chinese border; help with resettlement and medical care for some who made it to South Korea; medical care upon request in China and third countries; and assistance to several families and occasional aid supply in North Korea itself. MSF also collects refugees' accounts to raise awareness of the their situation in the media and with governments, UN agencies and human rights organizations. |
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