[zook]

My first thought was "how did it get there?"

[Ma Li]

Their is a huge contingency of North Korean refugees hiding out in Northeast China. People will risk being shot to get across the river from North Korea to China.

Absolutely no doubt some of them are sneaking back for some reason or other--see famliy or whatever. There isn't much other contact between the two nations--official contaact I mean. So, that tells us that if North Korea is lying about the numbers they have, then probably China is lying about the state of it's northeastern provinces.

[Calpernia]

My guess is from this meeting in Beijing:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-04-25-us-korea-talks_x.htm

There was a thread yesterday about SARs being found in Beijing's government offices.