Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06BANGKOK4842
2006-08-09 00:57:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Bangkok
Cable title:
UNHCR INFORMS EMBASSY OF INTEREST IN U.S.
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BANGKOK 004842
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
GENEVA FOR RMA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/08/2016
TAGS: PREF PREL PGOV PHUM KNEP KS TH
SUBJECT: UNHCR INFORMS EMBASSY OF INTEREST IN U.S.
RESETTLEMENT OF THREE NORTH KOREANS
Classified By: ACTING POLITICAL OFFICER MARK LAMBERT,
REASON 1.4 (B,D).
C O N F I D E N T I A L BANGKOK 004842
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
GENEVA FOR RMA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/08/2016
TAGS: PREF PREL PGOV PHUM KNEP KS TH
SUBJECT: UNHCR INFORMS EMBASSY OF INTEREST IN U.S.
RESETTLEMENT OF THREE NORTH KOREANS
Classified By: ACTING POLITICAL OFFICER MARK LAMBERT,
REASON 1.4 (B,D).
1. (C) Over the past several days, UNHCR/Bangkok informed
Embassy that three North Koreans in Bangkok's Immigration
Detention Center have expressed interest in U.S.
resettlement. UNHCR's ROK secondee has confirmed their North
Korean nationality and obtained a written statement of their
interst in U.S. resettlement.
2. (C) Biodata on the three persons follows:
Name: KIM, Seon Sook
Sex: Female
DOB: October 30, 1961
Ms. Kim is the mother of two other North Koreans women (YANG,
Un Mi and YANG, Un Ju) who approached the EMBASSY on May 27
and expressed interest in U.S. resettlement. Department has
already given approval to process the cases of the daughters.
Ms. Kim told UNHCR that she initially wanted to go to the
ROK with her husband. However, the husband died in Laos
enroute to Thailand due to illness. Now Ms. Kim wants to
accompany her daughters if they resettle to the United
States. She left North Korea on November 15, 2003. She
arrived in Thailand on April 12, 2006. She has no relatives
in the United States and left behind two brothers and four
sisters in North Korea.
Name: KIM, Yeong Ok
Sex: Female
DOB: October 30, 1965
Name: KIM, Byeol
Sex: Female
DOB: March 16, 1990
Kim Yeong Ok and Kim Byeol are mother-daughter. They left
North Korea in 2001. The mother was married to a Chinese man
in China by common law. They originally came to Thailand to
be resettled to the ROK, but changed their mind and now want
to go to the United States because there is more freedom
there and the mother wants the daughter to receive a U.S.
education.
3. (U) Please provide guidance on whether post should take
further steps in processing these cases for U.S.
resettlement.
ARVIZU
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
GENEVA FOR RMA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/08/2016
TAGS: PREF PREL PGOV PHUM KNEP KS TH
SUBJECT: UNHCR INFORMS EMBASSY OF INTEREST IN U.S.
RESETTLEMENT OF THREE NORTH KOREANS
Classified By: ACTING POLITICAL OFFICER MARK LAMBERT,
REASON 1.4 (B,D).
1. (C) Over the past several days, UNHCR/Bangkok informed
Embassy that three North Koreans in Bangkok's Immigration
Detention Center have expressed interest in U.S.
resettlement. UNHCR's ROK secondee has confirmed their North
Korean nationality and obtained a written statement of their
interst in U.S. resettlement.
2. (C) Biodata on the three persons follows:
Name: KIM, Seon Sook
Sex: Female
DOB: October 30, 1961
Ms. Kim is the mother of two other North Koreans women (YANG,
Un Mi and YANG, Un Ju) who approached the EMBASSY on May 27
and expressed interest in U.S. resettlement. Department has
already given approval to process the cases of the daughters.
Ms. Kim told UNHCR that she initially wanted to go to the
ROK with her husband. However, the husband died in Laos
enroute to Thailand due to illness. Now Ms. Kim wants to
accompany her daughters if they resettle to the United
States. She left North Korea on November 15, 2003. She
arrived in Thailand on April 12, 2006. She has no relatives
in the United States and left behind two brothers and four
sisters in North Korea.
Name: KIM, Yeong Ok
Sex: Female
DOB: October 30, 1965
Name: KIM, Byeol
Sex: Female
DOB: March 16, 1990
Kim Yeong Ok and Kim Byeol are mother-daughter. They left
North Korea in 2001. The mother was married to a Chinese man
in China by common law. They originally came to Thailand to
be resettled to the ROK, but changed their mind and now want
to go to the United States because there is more freedom
there and the mother wants the daughter to receive a U.S.
education.
3. (U) Please provide guidance on whether post should take
further steps in processing these cases for U.S.
resettlement.
ARVIZU