N Korean defector shot on Chinese soil: witness - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A pretty shocking relationship if you think about it.
Apparently North Korean jurisdiction extends into China, this is why North Korean agents can free roam in China and arrest 500 Chinese citizens. And there is nothing that Chinese can do or even protest about it. I recall that NK's chemical weapons plant built near the Chinese border was releasing toxic fumes into China when the wind was blowing from North Korea into China, and there was nothing China could do, other than to send in investigators to access the impacts.N Korean defector shot on Chinese soil: witness
North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy
Updated November 07, 2011 23:48:43
A North Korean human rights activist says he witnessed a defector being shot dead by the country's border guards despite the man having reached Chinese soil.
It is believed Pyongyang has launched a crackdown on people crossing the border into China.
The head of the North Korea Refugees Human Rights Association, Kim Yong-Hwa, was on a trip to the border between China and the secretive Stalinist state last month when he says he witnessed the shooting.
Mr Kim says after a North Korean man in his 40s crossed into China he was shot by border guards across the river.
He says several Chinese soldiers were standing nearby but did nothing.
Earlier this year South Korean media reported that North Korean border guards shot dead five defectors after pursuing them across the frontier into China.
A pretty shocking relationship if you think about it.