Defectors’ Group Says 15 N. Korean Escapees Arrested in China l KBS WORLD

The federal government is making an attempt to confirm claims {that a} group of 15 North Korean escapees have been arrested in China within the means of heading to South Korea. 

Jang Se-yul, the top of the North Korean Individuals’s Liberation Entrance, which is a Seoul-based North Korean defectors’ group, advised KBS on Tuesday that the escapees have been arrested by Chinese language authorities in Kunming in China’s southern Yunnan Province final Wednesday. 

Based on Jang, the group, consisting of 13 ladies and two youngsters, had left Jilin Province in two groups round August 10. 

As a gateway to Southeast Asia and South Asia, Kunming is a significant spot by way of which North Korean escapees in China cross by way of to get to South Korea. 

A unification ministry official advised reporters that the federal government is making an attempt confirm the claims, including that not at all ought to North Korean escapees who reside overseas be forcibly despatched again to the North in opposition to their will.