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| Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
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Suspected N.Koreans enter S.Korean China mission BEIJING, Friday (Reuters) Twenty men, women and children claiming to be North Koreans broke into the South Korean consulate in Beijing on Friday seeking asylum, a diplomatic source said. South Korean YTN television showed footage of the group clawing through a barbed-wire fence and scaling a wall to enter the compound in a leafy diplomatic area at dawn. The group included four children and was made up of 14 women and six men, the source said. Consulate officials were not immediately available for comment. Last month, 44 North Korean asylum seekers used makeshift ladders to scale the fence and leap into the Canadian embassy in Beijing. Hundreds of asylum seekers from reclusive North Korea have broken into foreign embassies and consulates in China since 2002, hoping to secure passage to wealthier South Korea, but usually in smaller groups. |
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