Adopt a North Korean (translated article)
Adopt a North Korean (translated article)
April 7, 2010 in Uncategorized
Tags: adopt, North Korea, refugee, stateless orphan
“U.S. Human Rights Organization Moving Forward with Adoptions of 3 Stateless North Korean Orphan Refugees”
by Noh Jeong-min, Washington
March 21, 2010
An American human rights group is pushing forward with the adoption of three stateless North Korean orphan refugees who are in China. The orphans arrived safely in a third country and received support. It will be the first case of Americans in the U.S. adopting stateless North Korean orphans.
The adoption to the U.S. of three stateless North Korean orphan refugees who were living in China is being pushed forward by an American human rights group. The children’s North Korean parents were refugees in China and were forced to go back to North Korea.
The siblings and cousins aged 12, 8, and 4 hid in China, and through the help of an American human rights organization arrived in a third country at the beginning of March.
The representative of the human rights organization added that 2-3 couples/families who are residents in Maryland and California have accepted the refugees for foster care and are working on operations for their adoption.
Human rights representative: The North Korean refugee orphans arrived in a third country. The children want to go to the U.S., and in the U.S. there are families who want to progress their adoptions. They children will be the first North Korean refugee orphans to be adopted in the U.S.
Also, the representative said that the U.S. embassy there that they’re in touch with said that doing the work to prove the identity of the orphans would be difficult, but help from U.S. human rights organizations and a refugee center would increase the changes of the possibility of the orphans being adopted to the U.S.
Amid this, U.S. Senator Sam Brownback proposed a bill on March 23 to speed up the adoptions of North Korean stateless refugee orphans in the future and said that prospects are high that there will be growing interest in adopting them.
Brownback clearly stated that there has to be a strategy to set up and provisions and offices/agencies for adoptions to the U.S. must be installed on the opposite side to help the thousands of stateless NK orphan refugees.
The human rights representative said that the proposed bill was warmly welcomed and that in the future and if processes and provisions are made it is expected that there will be a big effort for NK orphans to be adopted in the U.S.
Presently there are five orphans being supported and two additional ones in the process of going to a third country so they can be adopted in the U.S., the human rights organization’s representative added.
++Translation by me again. This one was pretty difficult because I don’t know the issue well. As always, corrections to my translations are welcome.
http://www.rfa.org/korean/in_focus/human_rights_defector/defector_orphan-03252010170229.html