North Korea: Michelle Nichols Marzuki Darusman

Michelle Nichols Marzuki Darusman: UNITED NATIONS - Fewer North Koreans are fleeing to South Korea, possibly due to tighter border control and cases of asylum seekers being returned home by China, a U.N. rights envoy said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. "This represents a reversal of the trend of steady increase in the number of annual arrivals since 1998, possibly due to recently tightened border control and increased incidents of refoulement," Darusman wrote in a statement presented to a U.N. General Assembly human rights committee and By Michelle Nichols Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation in North Korea, said that in the first nine months of this year 1,041 North Koreans arrived in South Korea, compared to 1,509 people for all of 2012 and 2,706 people in 2011. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.