China-Korea relations
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- Kim's China sojourn
- Mainichi Shimbun, Sunday 4 June 2000. North
Korean leader Kim Jong Il secretly visited Beijing and met
with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, National People's
Congress Chairman Li Peng and Premier Zhu Rongji. A historic
summit between the two Koreas is slated for June 12 in
Pyongyang. South Korean President Kim Dae-jung will enter
the meeting strengthened by his close ties with Washington
and Tokyo. Kim Jong Il no doubt wanted to secure similar
backing from Beijing to balance the talks.
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(North Korea)/People's Republic of China
- Amnesty International, AI Index: ASA 24/01/00, 7 June
2000. The Chinese government has been contravening the
internationally recognised principle of non-refoulement by
forcibly returning scores of North Korean refugees to their
country. Since 1995, the famine in North Korean is believed
to have caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people
and has triggered a flood of starving asylum seekers into
China.