Regime Blasts S. Korea for Accepting Defectors
From Times Wire Reports
North Korea denounced South Korean authorities as “wicked terrorists” for orchestrating an airlift of 468 North Korean defectors and said the move was part of a plot to bring down the communist regime.
Commenting on last month’s operation to bring the refugees to South Korea from Vietnam, the North’s official news agency said the defectors had been abducted and should be returned to the North. Seoul says the airlift was a humanitarian gesture.
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