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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
06BANGKOK4842	2006-08-09 00:57	2011-08-30 01:44	CONFIDENTIAL	Embassy Bangkok

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P 090057Z AUG 06
FM AMEMBASSY BANGKOK
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0790
INFO RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 2840
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 1256
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 1981
RUEHUM/AMEMBASSY ULAANBAATAR 0479
RUEHCN/AMCONSUL CHENGDU 0399
RUEHCHI/AMCONSUL CHIANG MAI 2264
RUEHGZ/AMCONSUL GUANGZHOU 3561
RUEHGH/AMCONSUL SHANGHAI 0052
RUEHSH/AMCONSUL SHENYANG 0323
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 1699

C O N F I D E N T I A L BANGKOK 004842 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
GENEVA FOR RMA 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/08/2016 
TAGS: PREF PREL PGOV PHUM KNEP KS TH
SUBJECT: UNHCR INFORMS EMBASSY OF INTEREST IN U.S. 
RESETTLEMENT OF THREE NORTH KOREANS 
 
 
Classified By: ACTING POLITICAL OFFICER MARK LAMBERT, 
REASON 1.4 (B,D). 
 
¶1. (C) Over the past several days, UNHCR/Bangkok informed 
Embassy that three North Koreans in Bangkok's Immigration 
Detention Center have expressed interest in U.S. 
resettlement.  UNHCR's ROK secondee has confirmed their North 
Korean nationality and obtained a written statement of their 
interst in U.S. resettlement. 
 
¶2. (C) Biodata on the three persons follows: 
 
Name:  KIM, Seon Sook 
Sex:  Female 
DOB:  October 30, 1961 
Ms. Kim is the mother of two other North Koreans women (YANG, 
Un Mi and YANG, Un Ju) who approached the Embassy on May 27 
and expressed interest in U.S. resettlement.  Department has 
already given approval to process the cases of the daughters. 
 Ms. Kim told UNHCR that she initially wanted to go to the 
ROK with her husband.  However, the husband died in Laos 
enroute to Thailand due to illness.  Now Ms. Kim wants to 
accompany her daughters if they resettle to the United 
States.  She left North Korea on November 15, 2003.  She 
arrived in Thailand on April 12, 2006.  She has no relatives 
in the United States and left behind two brothers and four 
sisters in North Korea. 
 
Name:  KIM, Yeong Ok 
Sex:  Female 
DOB:  October 30, 1965 
 
Name:  KIM, Byeol 
Sex:  Female 
DOB:  March 16, 1990 
 
Kim Yeong Ok and Kim Byeol are mother-daughter.  They left 
North Korea in 2001.  The mother was married to a Chinese man 
in China by common law.  They originally came to Thailand to 
be resettled to the ROK, but changed their mind and now want 
to go to the United States because there is more freedom 
there and the mother wants the daughter to receive a U.S. 
education. 
 
¶3. (U)  Please provide guidance on whether post should take 
further steps in processing these cases for U.S. 
resettlement. 
ARVIZU

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