The news of this event was pretty big. A group of North Korean refugees made a dash for a Japanese Consulate to defect, but Chinese guards grabbed the women and arrested the group. It made a big splash, because the guards seized the women even after they had crossed just over the threshold of the compound's entry gate - at which point they were officially on "Japanese soil". The video of the event shot around the world, and at least part of this group were released to South Korean authorities and not sent back to North Korea. So they were lucky. Each week, China sends others back even though many are tortured, imprisoned, and sometimes executed.