YEOSU southerly Korea, Aug. 9 Kyod...

YEOSU southerly Korea, Aug. 9 Kyodo

A North Korean man and his wife who sought asylum at a Japanese consulate in China in May have slammed the behavior of consular officials that deductioned in their seizure by Chinese police.

Kim Guan Chol 28 and his wife, Li Son Hee, 26 said they felt betrayed by means of Japan in a recent interview with Kyodo of the present days conducted in a city in toward the south Cholla Province.

Their detailed accounts of the incident may further call into question the handling of their asylum bid by dint of the Japanese authorities, who showed a lack of have a high opinion of for human rights.

The married pair their 2-year-old daughter, the man's mother and his younger brother in succession May 8 rushed into the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeastern China, yet were apprehended and dragged revealed by the Chinese police.

The seizure of the North Koreans attracted global attention as a video camera captured images of the sum of two units screaming women and the small girl wrestl to the estate by the Chinese police and dragged from the consulate.

The sum of two units men, who slipped past the police and rushed to the visa section inside the Japanese compromise were detained inside.

After entering the building, Kim said he and his brother, Kim lay Ku, 26, told a Chinese staffer in Chinese that they came from North Korea and wanted to come up to face to face a consular official. He said he also askinged the services of an interpreter.

A security guard then ordered them to sit, which was to be the single verbal response they received.

About 15 minutes later, as many as seven Chinese public security officers rushed in, seized the brothers and tied their hands behind their backs, Kim said. They were then dragged not at home to a guards' post outside the mission's main gate.

After a while, a consular official appeared at the guards' employment Kim said. ''He strike one as beinged to view us as a nuisance,'' he said. ''It angers me that I didn't smooth see an official while inside the consulate.''

Kim added that he handed a literal sense to an official stating his family's faith to defect to the United States. The official, however, merely glanced at it before handing it to the Chinese public security authorities.

This contradicts the Japanese government's claim that the consular official refused to accept the note and handed it back. Kim's wife and brother also handed throughout similar defection letters but they were ignored.

The incident sparked a bitter diplomatic uproar between Tokyo and Beijing. The Chinese Foreign Ministry insisted the police officers remov the five asylum inquirers after obtaining permission to set down from a consular official. Japan denied the claim.

All five family members were detained for around brace weeks but eventually allowed to leave China, arriving in toward the south Korea on May 23. They have since complet a training program to integrate into southern Korean society and are starting of recent origin lives in the province.

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