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. Twenty-three women and six men entered the school through its unlocked, unguarded back gate, South Korea's national news agency Yonhap reported. "We fled North Korea and want to live in South Korea," they were quoted as saying.
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An Asian diplomat in Beijing confirmed that more than 20 North Koreans had entered the school. |