China and Japan Deny Reports About Defectors
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China and Japan denied reports that they had agreed to send to a third country five North Korean asylum seekers seized from a Japanese Consulate by Chinese police.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency had said the five North Koreans seized by Chinese police May 8 from the consulate in Shenyang would be sent to a third country.
Meanwhile, a Canadian Embassy spokeswoman in Beijing said two North Koreans who had sought refuge in that building flew to Singapore and were expected to go on to South Korea.
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