Belarus confirms interest in dialogue with DPRK (Xinhua) Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei confirmed Monday his country's interest in developing dialogue with the DPRK especially in trade and economic sectors. More Defectors Turn Away from S.Korea (The Chosun Ilbo) A growing number of North Korean defectors return to their repressive home country or move to China as they find it difficult to adjust to life in the capitalist South.

There are many very large populations of Koreans, from North and South, who fled into China during the American War in Korea and these communities remain very strong healthy and significant within North East China/Liaoning/Dalian and to Shen Yang.