They are also recognized by Australia, Pakistan and Tanzania. I assume that anyone eligible for a TNC passport can also apply for a Turkish passport. Flights from ECN go only to destinations in Turkey, from where there are direct flights to those three countriesl
Conch Republic passport is available on line and is absolutely worthless for travel.
This is a really neat resource. Thanks.
Presumably it pretty much automatically grants asylum almost anywhere you choose. Given our knowledge of the oppressive regime in N Korea, if you requested asylum elsewhere you would have little to prove beyond just demonstrating that you are a genuine citizen of N Korea.
Most countries would pass you along to South Korea if you turned up wanting asylum. South Korea has a policy of accepting all North Koreans who defect and has a special program to integrate them.
However with China and I believe Russia, thats not true, they would pass you back to North Korea for a very unpleasant fate.
No; Turkey doesn’t regard the TNC as its territory, or people born there as Turkish citizens. But they can apply for a Cypriot passport - and do, in large numbers.
That’s interesting, is that the way asylum works in (say) the U.S.? I realize that S Korea would probably be the preferred destination for most fleeing N Koreans in any case, but if a N Korean shows up in the U.S. asking for asylum in the U.S. based on political persecution, is one of the legal possibilities “you can’t stay here, but we will send you to another country that’s willing to accept you and where you won’t be persecuted”?
WAG it would probably depend on if the North Korean had any useful intelligence that the US wanted. If so and they really wanted to stay in the US then probably a deal would be offered.
You don’t generally have a right to asylum simply by virtue of being a citizen of repressive regime. Under the Refugee Convention you have to show that you, yourself, have a well-founded fear of persecution on the grounds of race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion. It may be that many North Koreans could show that without difficulty; but they do have to show it.
That’s not to say that a country can’t be more generous or more open if it chooses to. The US is free to declare that everybody with a North Korean passport is welcome to settle in the US; they are just under no obligation to adopt such a stance. Or the US could adopt a policy of granting political asylum to people who fail to demonstrate that they are refugees entitled to the protection of the Convention - but, again, they’re not obliged to.
If you do succeed in showing that you have a well-founded fear, etc, and you’re in a country that is a party to the Refugee Convention, that country accept an obligation to afford you protection. But that doesn’t mean that they have to afford you protection by accepting you as a permanent resident in their own country. Typically, most refugees end up in countries which are the immediate or near neighbours of the country they have fled from. (The great bulk of Afghan refugees, for example, are in Pakistan and Iran; Syrian refugees are mostly in Turkey, the Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq (or internally displaced in Syria). They mostly hope that political conditions will alter so that they can safely return home, but if there’s no hope of that then they’ll frequently be resettled in a third country, and that’s fine as far as the Refugee Convention goes.
So, yes, the US could accept that a North Korean citizen qualifies as a refugee but, if he also qualifies for South Korean citizenship (as most North Koreans do) they can ensure his protection by arranging for him to go to South Korea.