3 Asylum Seekers Get Into S. Korean Consulate
From Times Wire Reports
Three North Korean asylum seekers were holed up in the South Korean Consulate in Beijing in the latest of a string of incidents highlighting the plight of tens of thousands of people hiding in China after fleeing hunger in their Communist homeland.
Theirs was the first confirmed case of North Koreans making asylum bids in the mission of South Korea.
The South Korean Foreign Ministry said it was in talks with Chinese authorities over the three defectors.
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