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Teenager says he escaped North Korea and made it to Sweden, claims asylum
CNBC ^ | January 21, 2015

Posted on 01/21/2015 8:06:19 PM PST by rdl6989

A 17-year-old who says he is a street child from North Korea is seeking refugee status in Sweden, maintaining he walked across a frozen river into China and traversed two continents in cars, the trans-Siberian railway and the back of a truck.

But he offers no evidence to back his claims and Swedish authorities suspect he may be Chinese.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: northkorea

1 posted on 01/21/2015 8:06:19 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Well, start talking to him in Korean and see how he responds.


2 posted on 01/21/2015 8:13:56 PM PST by aquila48
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To: rdl6989

Not to worry. Put him on a plain to Boston and he can have an EBT card and a housing voucher just like Aunt Zatuni and Uncle Omar.


3 posted on 01/21/2015 8:17:07 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Yes and we will open wide for allll their friends and family.


4 posted on 01/21/2015 8:23:27 PM PST by easternsky
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To: aquila48

I am sure there is a very distinct dialect of Korean spoken in NK as they have been isolated for some 65 years.


5 posted on 01/21/2015 8:28:21 PM PST by LukeL
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To: rdl6989

Okay, so he escaped China then.

Good for him.


6 posted on 01/21/2015 8:28:41 PM PST by ltc8k6
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An average 17-year old North Korean would probably look about 10 years old, malnourished, physically and mentally stunted.


7 posted on 01/21/2015 8:31:23 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: aquila48
Well, start talking to him in Korean and see how he responds

From the article, he speaks Korean with a thick NK accent. He apparently doesn't speak Chinese? I think there is something missing in the story.

8 posted on 01/21/2015 8:31:43 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: rdl6989

Put a plate of rice down in front of him.
Does he dive at it?
He’s North Korean.


9 posted on 01/21/2015 8:32:14 PM PST by struggle
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He should have said he was a Muslim and from Iraq and they would have asked no more questions.


10 posted on 01/21/2015 8:42:31 PM PST by aquila48
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To: rdl6989

couldnt have chosen a sh**hole more like North Korea. poor guy


11 posted on 01/21/2015 8:50:58 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: fieldmarshaldj

If he was part of the military, he would be one of the healthier looking runts. I don’t think he made that claim though. They better keep is name and image a secret, because North Korea has surprisingly long arms when it comes to revenge.


12 posted on 01/21/2015 9:14:40 PM PST by lee martell
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To: rdl6989
listen to this....she has a pretty voice...like a song bird...

Wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqBWvmhS-AY

she also has a "slight" accent...it's hard to detect (sarc/)


13 posted on 01/22/2015 2:34:27 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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Notice when the NK military poses for pictures, they still often look like children dressed up in adult uniforms. Even if the Kim God-Dictatorship collapsed tomorrow and Korea became reunited, it would be absurdly difficult to assimilate Northerners into society. Almost 7 decades of separation have turned them into two different peoples, and Northerners would likely be a permanent underclass.


14 posted on 01/22/2015 10:29:00 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: BCW

That was uh, interesting.


15 posted on 01/22/2015 1:23:42 PM PST by rdl6989
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