Marchers to urge Beijing to stop repatriating North Korean defectors
A defectors' rights group will march to the North Korean consulate in Hong Kong today as political intrigue continues after the execution of Jang Song-thaek. In a bid to boost interest in the protest, NK Defectors Concern - a small organisation set up in 2012 - has hired a Hong Kong lookalike of the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, to take part.
A defectors' rights group will march to the North Korean consulate in Hong Kong today as political intrigue continues after the execution of Jang Song-thaek.
In a bid to boost interest in the protest, NK Defectors Concern - a small organisation set up in 2012 - has hired a Hong Kong lookalike of the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, to take part.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un takes a stroll in Hong Kong, or did he?
The group opposes repatriation of North Koreans who defect to China, and will call on Pyongyang to improve human rights and immediately abolish political prisoner camps.
"We urge the Chinese government to stop repatriating North Korean defectors," said 23-year-old Owen Lau Kwun-hang, a secondary school teacher and one of the four founders of the group.
They expect 10 to 20 people to take part in the march from Immigration Tower in Wan Chai to the North Korean consulate in the nearby China Resources Building.