North Korean refugees seek political voice in South with new party

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SEOUL (Reuters) - A group of North Korean refugees launched a political party in South Korea on Tuesday, aiming to give a voice to the 33,500 defectors living in the South and oppose conciliation with Pyongyang.

"We were always considered minorities and aliens," said Kim Joo-il, secretary-general of the new South-North Unification Party at its launch at a hall in South Korea's capital Seoul."North Korean defectors are now the future of unification."

Attendees at the launch event discussed cases that have become rallying cries for defectors, who say the South Korean government provides them too little support. South Korea is technically still at war with the North because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with no peace treaty. While unification is still a national goal in South, it is widely seen as an increasingly distant possibility.

 

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