Seven presumed North Koreans seek refuge in Beijing Japanese school
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Seven people believed to be North Koreans rushed into a Japanese school in Beijing seeking refuge, the latest in a steady stream of defectors from the Stalinist state.
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Mass suicide is suspected after Japanese police find seven people dead in a van in mountains near Tokyo.
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44 men, women and children, all believed to be North Koreans, remain inside the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. The group scaled the walls of the Embassy early Wednesday morning.
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea  has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its  nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia,  saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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Eight foreign diplomats in North Korea  have been given permission to visit the site of a mysterious  blast Thursday, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Wednesday.
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia, saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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It&#39;s the latest in a series of defections and attempted defections from the communist country. Seven people, believed to be North Korean refugees, have entered a Japanese school in Beijing.
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Seven people claiming to have defected from North Korea sought refuge in a Japanese school in Beijing on Friday, Japanese government officials said.
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Twenty-nine people believed to be North Koreans have entered a South Korean school in Beijing, apparently seeking asylum. Diplomats say the group, including two children, entered the school early Friday.
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Chinese police are reported to have arrested 60 North Korean refugees in raids on safe houses in Beijing.
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A group of 29 people, thought to be North Koreans, force their way into a Japanese school in Beijing.
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BEIJING -- Seven men and women, apparently North Korean defectors, sought refugee at a Japanese school early Friday morning. Japanese diplomats in Beijing said that they were two men, four women and a girl.
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A group of 20 people, thought to be North Koreans, force their way into the South Korean consulate in Beijing.
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Chinese state media report that police have arrested 65 North Koreans, who were planning to seek asylum in foreign embassies in Beijing.
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Two men, four women and a child scaled a wall and barbed wire to get into the Japanese school at dawn on Friday. Asylum-seekers have been invading foreign missions in China since 2002.
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Four people believed to have fled North  Korea arrived at a port in northern Japan in a small boat on  Saturday and later told police they want to go to South Korea,  Kyodo news agency reported.
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BEIJING  - As many as 29 North Koreans entered a South Korean school in Beijing on Friday and requested asylum, adding to a surge in large-scale defections from the communist nation.