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Saturday, 16 March, 2002
China-North Korea-Asylum Seekers: VOA Correspondent Jim Randle speaks
with Paul Westpheling
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Mar 2002 18:04 UTC
 
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| North Korean asylum seekers celebrated Thursday after entering the
Spanish embassy in Beijing |
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Four vans
have left the Spanish Embassy in Beijing but what is not known is whether they
contain any of the 25 people who had sought asylum there 24 hours ago. The
Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed Philippine official as saying the North
Koreans would be flown to Manila before being sent to a third country,
presumably South Korea. The VOA Correspondent in Beijing, Jim Randle told News
Now's Paul Westpheling China's Prime Minister Zhu Rongji has said an agreeement
had been reached on the status of the asylum seekers:
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