North Koreans clamber for asylum
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More than 40 North Koreans were holed up inside the Canadian embassy in Beijing for a third day on Friday after Canada refused China&#39;s demand to hand them over.
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North Korea appealed to refugees who have  sought asylum in the South to return to the impoverished state,  avoiding for once labeling them "human scum" and saying a warm  home awaits them.
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A group of 29 people claiming to be North Korean asylum seekers barged into a South Korean school in Beijing early Friday morning, officials said.
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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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Twenty North Korean defectors climbed a fence to enter the South Korean Consulate in Beijing in search of asylum early Friday morning.
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BEIJING -- Forty-three men, women, and children using ladders clambered over a spiked fence around the Canadian Embassy in China's capital yesterday in what appeared to be the biggest recent bid for asylum by North Koreans. One other man was stopped by police.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The 44 North Koreans who have been holed up in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing since last month have been given beds, food, clothing and toys for the kids, but they aren&#39;t going anywhere for a while, Foreign Affairs officials said Wednesday.
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In a daring bid for asylum, 44 North Korean refugees have scaled the wall around the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, successfully making it into the compound.
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Twenty-nine people believed to be North Korean defectors seeking asylum broke into the Japanese School in Beijing on Wednesday morning by cutting through a wire fence, Foreign Ministry officials in Tokyo said.
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A group of some 20 people claiming to be North Koreans entered the South Korean consulate in Beijing in an apparent bid to seek asylum there, news reports here said.
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A South Korean embassy spokesman in China has confirmed that a group of people, claiming to be North Koreans, has entered a school for South Koreans in Beijing seeking asylum.
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The fate of 29 North Koreans remains unclear after they penetrated a Japanese school in Beijing Wednesday. Japanese officials on Thursday indicated they might help the asylum seekers go to a third country.
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China is calling on Canadian diplomats to hand over 44 people believed to be North Korean asylum seekers. The group stormed into the Canadian Embassy in the Chinese capital on Wednesday.
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A group of 44 North Korean asylum seekers used makeshift ladders to scale the fence and leap into the Canadian embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, officials said.
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A group of nine North Koreans who entered the Shanghai American School in China earlier this week in an apparent bid for asylum were handed over to police, it was revealed today.
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Chinese police detained 65 North Korean asylum-seekers in Beijing, South Korean activists said Wednesday, accusing China of carrying out &quot;hardline measures&quot; to round up refugees from its ally North Korea.
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Forty-four North Koreans who spent three months in the Canadian Embassy here in China&#39;s biggest known asylum bid to date have been allowed to leave the country, an embassy spokesman said Thursday.