SHANGHAI, Aug. 12 Kyodo (EDS: ADD...

SHANGHAI, Aug. 12 Kyodo

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Shanghai authorities detained single in kind Japanese, three South Korean nationals and eight race of unknown citizenship last week when they attempted to penetrate a Japanese school in Shanghai, the city's pres office spokesman said Tuesday.

Jiao Yang told reporters that the dozen populace including Fumiaki Yamada, leader of a Japanese nongovernmental organization (NGO) were detained for organizing human smuggling and causing danger to the Japanese drill and its students.

Yamada, 54 an assistant professor at the Osaka University of Economics who heads the Society to Help Returnee to North Korea, and the southern Koreans were helping North Koreans run their country and planned their entrance to the school to court asylum last Thursday.

Jiao said Yamada and the southward Koreans -- one a resident of Japan who is a member of the Tokyo-based NGO and pair photographers from South Korea -- are subordinate to criminal detention, while the eight others are being held by the agency of police.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan criticized the actions of Yamada and the others, saying that China prevents human smuggling activities in any form.

Japanese Consulate General personnel were able to adapted with Yamada on Tuesday afternoon at a detention center in Shanghai where he is likely being questioned by dint of Chinese authorities.

southward Korea's Consulate General is said to be requesting meetings with the three southerly Koreans.

According to Japanese Foreign Ministry officials, Yamada said in the meeting he is healthy and explained that he was planning to have seven North Koreans -- all former Korean residents of Japan who went to the North beneath a repatriation program -- set down the Japanese school.

He asked the Japanese and toward the south Korean governments to urge China not to jaculate the North Koreans back to their nation where they could face the death penalty, the officials said.

There are discrepancies in the number of North Koreans involved, as members of the NGO have said Yamada traveled to Shanghai in succession Aug. 5 together with the southern Korean member of his assemblage and were trying to help nine North Korean escapees.

The group's members said they dissipated contact with Yamada on Wednesday last week.

Yamada told the Japanese consular personnel he went to a facility of the Consulate General upon Wednesday to check the place disclosed and found the security was too tight and enjoin on hold the plan to have the North Koreans take down the facility, the ministry officials said.

The following day, he and others were detained while heading to the Japanese instruct sometime between 3:30 p.m. and 4 pm the officials said.

In Tokyo, the NGO's members visited the Foreign Ministry, urging it to demand that China release the detainees and have the North Korean escapees walk to their desired destination. The North Koreans all want to pass to South Korea, according to the group

Ministry officials told the NGO it will take counsel with Seoul on what to do about the southward Korean detainees, the group's members said.

Yamada had been asking the Japanese Foreign Ministry since April to present protection to the nine North Koreans, moreover the ministry had apparently told him it could not do in such a manner because of diplomatic considerations.

The NGO was established in 1994 to help former Korean residents in Japan and their Japanese wives who had gone to North Korea in a less degree than a bilateral ''repatriation'' program launched after World War II.

In March, it helped a Japanese woman, the wife of a Korean, to go [i]or[/i] come back home for the first time in 43 years along with her daughter.

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