SEOUL Aug. 27 Kyodo southern Kore...

SEOUL Aug. 27 Kyodo

southern Korea on Tuesday said China should not forcibly repatriate seven North Koreans detained Monday after trying to insert the Chinese Foreign Ministry seeking refugee status, Yonhap of recent origins Agency reported.

''If they were confirmed to be seeking political asylum in southerly Korea, we would deliver like a position to the Beijing government'' the report quot a southward Korean Foreign Ministry official as saying.

''However, for now, we are just at a fact-finding stage,'' the official said, adding the Chinese authorities have not informed Seoul of their detention of the seven North Koreans.

''Had the seven North Koreans inserted the South Korean Embassy in Beijing or foreign diplomatic mission offices there, we would have been informed of their situation,'' he added.

The defectors tried to set in two separate gates of the Foreign Ministry in sum of two units groups, but all were immediately arrested by means of Chinese guards, Yonhap earlier reported.

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