North Korean Refugees Seek Asylum in Canadian Embassy
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A total of 45 North Korean refugees tried to seek asylum in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, with one person arrested by police and 44 others succeeding, paving the way for their deportation to South Korea.
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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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BEIJING (CP) - China said Thursday it wants the Canadian Embassy to hand over 44 people thought to be North Korean asylum-seekers who climbed over a spiked fence onto embassy grounds.
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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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BEIJING: A group of North Korean refugees attempted to enter a South Korean consulate building in Beijing but only three managed to take shelter inside, South Korean officials and media said.
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About 45 suspected North Koreans climbed over a wall into the Canadian embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, the latest in a rash of diplomatic mission break-ins by people seeking asylum outside the isolated Communist country.
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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.
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Twenty-nine North Koreans sought asylum Wednesday at a Japanese school in Beijing, hoping to ultimately reach South Korea, the Kyodo news agency reported.
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Diplomats in Beijing say at least 44 people claiming to be North Koreans have stormed the Canadian embassy in an apparent bid for asylum.
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A group of 20 people who claimed to be North Koreans snuck into the South Korean consulate in Beijing on Friday in a bid for asylum, news reports said.
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BEIJING (CP) - Forty-four men, women and children using ladders clambered over a spiked fence around the Canadian Embassy on Wednesday in what appeared to be the biggest recent bid for asylum by North Koreans.
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BEIJING (CP) - China urged the Canadian Embassy on Thursday to hand over 44 possible North Korean asylum-seekers, while officials said nine North Koreans who entered a U.S. school in Shanghai had been handed over to Chinese police.
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BEIJING -- Twenty-nine people believed to be North Korean entered the Japanese school in Beijing on Wednesday morning to seek asylum in a country other than China, according to Foreign Ministry officials in Tokyo.
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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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A group of suspected North Korean refugees has broken into the Canadian embassy in the Chinese cpaital, Beijing. Our China correspondent, John Taylor, reports the group on Thursday afternoon scaled the walls of the embassy compound.
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October 23, 2004 ã¡ October 23, 2004 ã¡ BEIJING â In a bid for political asylum, a group of 29 North Korean defectors, including two children, sought refuge at a South Korean school here yesterday morning.
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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.