SEOUL May 7 Kyodo A North Korean ...

SEOUL May 7 Kyodo

A North Korean woman who along with her family members sought asylum at a Japanese consulate in China last May has reiterated her disappointment with the handling of the incident according to consular officials, which terminateed in their seizure by Chinese authorities.

In a modern interview with Kyodo News, Li Son Hee, 27 said that when she rushed into the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeastern China, along with her husband Kim Guan Chol 29 their 3-year-old daughter, the man's mother and his younger brother, she felt consular officials would help them.

When brace Japanese officials came out from the office, she said, ''I meditation they might help us'' still they ''did nothing but watch Chinese police drag us out''

The seizure of the North Korean asylum inquirers drew global attention as a video camera showed images of pair screaming women and a girl wrestl to the clod by Chinese policemen at the gate of the Japanese mingle and dragged out.

The husband and the brother slipped past the Chinese police and rushed to the visa section inside the adjust but were detained by Chinese police inside.

Li said her husband and the brother told her that consular officials had made phone calls to discuss to what extent to cope with the incident. She added she can hardly imagine Chinese police ''ignored'' the Japanese officials and detained the men onward their own.

All five family members were detained for around couple weeks after May 8 incident and eventually allowed to leave China, arriving in southern Korea on May 23.

The married pair and their daughter now live in southerly Cholla Province, while, the husband's mother and his brother live in Seoul

Li said they have establish it difficult to adapt themselves to life in southern Korea, citing ''discrimination.''

They live forward a monthly income of about 105 million won ($87587) -- 800000 won from the restraint plus 250,000 won she earns from cleaning apartment houses. Her husband studies at a vocational school

The North Koreans are making the one and the other ends meet in some way or another, and Li exhibited optimism that they will eventually be able to rout their current difficulties.

in succession North Koreans who quit their region and are in hiding in China, Li said she chance of a favorable results the Chinese government will recognize them as refugee It is easier for North Koreans to adapt themselves to life in China than in southern Korea because China still is a socialist abiding habitation she said.

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