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Friday, January 09, 2004 |
Frozen frontier where illicit trade with China offers lifeline for isolated North Koreans. Jonathan Watts reports from the banks of the Yalu river (The Guardian) The smugglers' signal comes shortly after midnight. From the darkness of the North Korean houses on the "opposite" bank of the icy Yalu river, a torchlight flashes twice. It stirs a Chinese woman, wrapped in thick winter clothing, to leave her ramshackle home and trudge across the snow towards the narrow stretch of water that serves as a border. She is not alone. Here and there, shadowy figures can be seen on both sides of the misty river quietly carrying out an illegal - but thriving - trade in women, endangered species, food and consumer appliances that makes a mockery of North Korea's reputation as a tightly controlled... [Free North Korea!]
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There was a leadership training meeting in Sichuan province last night. Half an hour after the meeting finished, the PSB came and arrested about 20 people. They stripped the house and a lot of its contents, including mattresses.
20 leaders are still being detained. This church has always been under persecution for a long time. Please join us in prayers that they will be released soon and may God protect His church and His people in Sichuan.
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