Canada has deported almost 2,000 North Korean asylum seekers in the last five years.
Canada has deported almost 2,000 North Korean asylum seekers in the last five years because of allegedly providing false information on their refugee forms. At the moment, Canada is poised to deport another 150 North Koreans, Al Jazeera reports.
Taegun Kim, who arrived in Canada 11 years ago with his wife and family, is on the deportation list. The couple has had two more children since they left North Korea — they are Canadian citizens. But the family will be split asunder if Kim and the members of his family not born in Canada are sent back.
“That notice means death to me,” Kim told Al Jazeera News. “I came all the way here for a better life and my family is well adjusted to life in Canada. To think we’re going to be separated, it breaks my heart.
