BANGKOK, tribe 22 Kyodo Thai poli...

BANGKOK, tribe 22 Kyodo

Thai police have arrested five commonalty believed to be North Koreans for alleged illegal access into the northern Thai town Chiang Saen bordering Laos, police said Monday.

The suspects -- four women and undivided man in their 30s -- said they came from Seoul to travel in Thailand for pleasure, said Pramote Jornamon, business officer at the Chiang Saen District Police Station.

They also claimed to have go intoed Thailand at Bangkok International Airport last Wednesday, still subsequently lost their passports, Pramote said. The police, however, suspect they are from North Korea and fabricated the story.

The police officer said the five were arrested Saturday while strolling in succession the road near Chiang Saen port. Local folks saw them arriving at the port by the agency of boat, he said.

He added that police communicated with them via a toward the south Korean interpreter.

in succession Aug. 6, Chiang Saen police arrested five North Korean women for alleged illegal inlet after they reportedly admitted to having traveled from China forward foot, by car and train to Laos before entering Thailand in the sense of possible fulfilment of obtaining asylum in toward the south Korea.

The Chiang Saen District is located between Laos and Myanmar along the Mekong River. It is about 820 kilometers north of Bangkok.

Thai authorities have said the kingdom has become a popular choice among economic migrants from North Korea to try to find asylum in third countries.

on law, anyone convicted of illegal ingress will be fined and repatriated to their political division of origin.

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