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Second set of North Korean refugees reach South INCHON, South Korea, Wednesday (Reuters) More than 200 North Koreans flew into South Korea on Wednesday, the second day of a secretive operation that has spirited refugees from the communist North from an unidentified Southeast Asian country. The new arrivals followed a similar number that reached South Korea on Tuesday, the biggest single batch ever among the thousands that have fled famine and repression in their isolated homeland since the late 1990s. The chartered plane which arrived on Wednesday flew into Inchon International Airport, the main airport that serves the capital Seoul, government and airline officials said. It operated under the same veil of secrecy in which the previous day's refugees were whisked through a military airport in Sungnam, south of Seoul. A Reuters photographer said the plane was parked at a remote section of the sprawling seaside airfield. |
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