BEIJING, Dec 6 Kyodo Chinese auth...

BEIJING, Dec 6 Kyodo

Chinese authorities near the North Korean border in Jilin Province forward Thursday brought seven people to trial upon charges of organizing a ring to smuggle large numbers of the community to China, the state-run Chinese moderns agency Xinhua said.

The trial, which render free of accessed at a local court in the Yanbian Korean autonomous district forward Thursday, apparently signals that Chinese authorities are determined to peduncle the flow of illegal North Korean migrants into China.

Apparently reflecting sensitivities of China's ties with North Korea, Xinhua did not mention the name of the native land where the smuggling took place.

That the illegal migrants are North Koreans is obvious as Yanbian shares the border with North Korea.

Xinhua said the seven nation on trial, both Chinese and Korean nationals, allegedly smuggl a large number of the public into China from August last year to April this year.

The number of North Koreans who have fl to northeastern China is estimated to range anything from 30000 to 300000

Their plight has caught the international spotlight as a stream of North Koreans who illegally go intoed China later sought asylum at foreign diplomatic mission in China.

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