China isn't honoring the International Agreement, does that mean we shouldn't too?

"United there is little we cannot do...Divided there is little we can do."

John F. Kennedy said this in his inauguration speech. Today in North Korea, The people are very aware of this relying on humanitarians, traffickers, activists, and missionaries to operate an Asian underground railroad. There are many who are trying to escape from North Korea. These civilians are working and paying for their freedom.

John F. Kennedy also said, "In your hands, my fellow citizen, more then mine." It is up the North Koreans to become free and even though there the government is against that, the people have united in helping each other.

"These people have lost all their rights,” states Pastor Chun Ki-won an active member in the transport to freedom.

Pastor Chun has taken it into his own hands to free many North Koreans and even though China should be taking North Koreans as refugees China is labeling them as "economic migrants". If North Koreans are caught, punishments such as starved, torched or even publicly executed and because of this punishment, China is being urged to honor its International Agreement to take in refugees.

"In the Months leading up to the 2008 Olympics, Chinese authorities intensified their efforts to apprehend defectors”
–National Geographic February 2008 magazine.

Chinese would deport dozens sometimes hundreds of defectors in just the course of one week. With everything against them it would be easy to give up so it seems, but the choice that North Koreans face is no rights or possibly dying in an effort to have a much better life in South Korea.
Because the United States of America has laws to protect them, John F. Kennedy talks in his inauguration speech “ We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom.” This is something that for North Koreans that are defectors is striving for. Because it will not happen in there own country they are choosing to leave.

“To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required -- not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

The North Koreans are trying to have a better life, they are showing effort in reaching freedom, giving everything and running the risks of death and work prisons, starvation and the fear of starting over. There are many out there trying to escape, and though there is few helping them, still there are suffers, still there is injustice, we still have a window to help. China is not honoring their International Agreement, does that mean that we shouldn’t too?

Sources:
O'Neill, Tom. "Escaping North Korea." National Geographic Feb. 2009: 74-99.
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John F. Kennedy's First Inauguration Speech