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Defectors' Divorce a Hot Issue in Koreas

Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:33:51 PM
By BO-MI LIM

 Five-month-old Sarana Tsydenova sits in her mother's arms as her father Song, left, reads a document at their home in Yeongju, some 230 kilometers, 140 miles, southeast Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 23, 2007. Defectors' divorce has become a hot issue in South Korea as a growing number of North Koreans cross the heavily armed border _ in place since the Korean War's 1953 cease-fire _ to escape poverty and political repression. More than 9,600 North Koreans entered the country as of last year, according to government statistics. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)YEONGJU, South Korea (AP) - Song will soon be able to get a divorce. The question is, will his wife ever find out?

Song is a 49-year-old defector from North Korea who left a wife and two children behind him, took up with a Russian mother of three and brought them to South Korea. But so impenetrable is the iron curtain between the two Koreas that there's no way of communicating. There are no phone, mail or Internet connections.

This area of marital law is a legal minefield for South Korea which is likely to be cleared in March when a law is enacted permitting defectors to obtain a divorce from a South Korean court. But not all the mines will be defused.


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