INCHEON, southern Korea, July 31 Ky...

INCHEON, southern Korea, July 31 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH ARRIVAL IN s KOREA, CHANGING DATELINE)

A 32-year-old North Korean asylum inquirer on Thursday arrived in toward the south Korea on a flight from Taiwan.

With help from the Taiwan command together with the South Korean trade office in Taipei, Park Young Shil boarded a Korean Air flight border for Incheon international airport earlier in the day.

She was rescu by means of a Panamanian-registered cargo ship onward July 13 while drifting near a harbor in China's Hebei Province.

A Taiwan Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday that Park make her solicitation for political asylum after arriving in Taiwan.

''The (Taiwan) guidance feels sympathetic for her courage to conduct freedom, and has decided to exhibit assistance on a humanitarian basis,'' ministry spokesman Richard Shih said.

The ministry's investigation point out tos that Park fled her hometown in North Korea in mid-2001 for China's Jiling Province and then traveled to Hebei.

She got a part-time piece of work at a Korean restaurant there and heard of local of recent origins reports saying North Korean nationals could head toward southern Korea if they could travel via a third country

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