China Deports N.Koreans Sheltering at Int'l School
Seven North Korean defectors who entered the compound of a Korean international school in the Northwestern Chinese city of Yantai, Shandong Province, on Aug. 29 and requested safe passage to South Korea have been returned to the North. The group consisted of two men and five women, four of them from the same family.
China Softens on N.Korean Defectors
Chinese authorities have agreed to let eight North Korean women who made their way into a Korean international school in Qingdao, China on Tuesday seek shelter at the South Korean Consulate. "After negotiations with the Chinese government, the entire group was moved today at around 2:50 p.m. to Korean consular buildings, where they are safe and being looked after,” Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said.
Now, I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I have to wonder at the timing. All to often of late the North has tried to "respond" to possibly bad press in the South. This seems a little too smooth for that but it makes you wonder. With China being in the picture on all this, it makes me wonder too how close the two counties coordinate all/any of this.
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