US encourage the DPRK immigration

US President George Bush on Monday signed the "Law on Human Rights in the DPRK-2004", in accordance with which the rights of citizens of this country who want to obtain a political refugee in the United States expand.

In addition, under this law, until 2008, the humanitarian needs of the North Korean refugees will be allocated at $ 24 million a year.

According to the employee of the Freedom House lawyer Nina Shi, these measures should contribute to the departure of DPRK citizens from their country, Interfax reports.

Since the end of the Korean War of 1950-1953. Over 5 thousand DPRK citizens moved to the Republic of Korea. According to human rights organizations, at present, more than 200 thousand defectors from North Korea are hiding in China, many of which expect the opportunity to move to the south of the Korean Peninsula.

For example, today two residents of the DPRK, a man and a woman, ran to the Republic of Korea. According to the representative of the Committee of the Chiefs of the Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, they were able to cross in a small boat an intensely guarded border in the Yellow Sea, ITAR-TASS reports.

Having landed on the South Korean coast, they were immediately detained by the police. This is a rather rare case when the North Koreans run south directly across the border of the two countries, since this is fraught with a great risk to life. Usually they first move to neighboring China, and only then through third countries they get to South Korea.