Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SEOUL1942
2006-06-12 07:12:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Seoul
Cable title:
ROK CAUTIOUS ON REFUGEE PROCESSING IN RUSSIA
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 001942
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
MOSCOW FOR REFCOORD RICHARDSON
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2015
TAGS: PREF PREL KS KN RS
SUBJECT: ROK CAUTIOUS ON REFUGEE PROCESSING IN RUSSIA
REF: STATE 93689
Classified By: A/POL Sung Y. Kim. Reasons 1.4 (b),(d).
(C) On June 12, poloff delivered reftel points, informing the
ROKG that the USG will be discussing its interest in
processing North Korean asylum seekers for U.S. resettlement
on a case-by-case basis with the GOR, to Pak Ji-hyun, Deputy
Director of MOFAT's Inter-Korean Policy Division. Pak
welcomed the advance notification, but speculated that Russia
would be unlikely to issue exit permission for North Koreans
who were approved for U.S. refugee resettlement because it
might lead to increasing numbers of North Korean asylum
seekers in Russia. If approached by GOR officials, the ROKG
would reiterate that it had no objections to U.S.
participation in the resettlement of North Koreans who wanted
to depart for a country other than South Korea. The ROKG,
however, would need to wait for the GOR reaction to gauge how
best to assist with possible USG processing of North Koreans
in Russia, noting that Seoul's relations with Moscow were
different than with Bangkok.
VERSHBOW
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
MOSCOW FOR REFCOORD RICHARDSON
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/18/2015
TAGS: PREF PREL KS KN RS
SUBJECT: ROK CAUTIOUS ON REFUGEE PROCESSING IN RUSSIA
REF: STATE 93689
Classified By: A/POL Sung Y. Kim. Reasons 1.4 (b),(d).
(C) On June 12, poloff delivered reftel points, informing the
ROKG that the USG will be discussing its interest in
processing North Korean asylum seekers for U.S. resettlement
on a case-by-case basis with the GOR, to Pak Ji-hyun, Deputy
Director of MOFAT's Inter-Korean Policy Division. Pak
welcomed the advance notification, but speculated that Russia
would be unlikely to issue exit permission for North Koreans
who were approved for U.S. refugee resettlement because it
might lead to increasing numbers of North Korean asylum
seekers in Russia. If approached by GOR officials, the ROKG
would reiterate that it had no objections to U.S.
participation in the resettlement of North Koreans who wanted
to depart for a country other than South Korea. The ROKG,
however, would need to wait for the GOR reaction to gauge how
best to assist with possible USG processing of North Koreans
in Russia, noting that Seoul's relations with Moscow were
different than with Bangkok.
VERSHBOW