North Korea’s borders are creaking open
Thousands of defectors and exiles in China face a grim forced return
THE GATES of North Korea, closed since January 2020 ostensibly to keep covid-19 out, are finally creaking open. On August 27th North Korean state media announced that citizens who had been locked out of the country during the pandemic were starting to return home. Some North Korean civil aeroplanes have already made return trips to Beijing.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “North Korea’s opening borders”
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