TOKYO, July 15 Kyodo The Foreign ...

TOKYO, July 15 Kyodo

The Foreign Ministry in succession Monday appointed Toshiro Ogawauchi, a specialist onward the Korean Peninsula at the ministry, as the of recent origin consul general in Shenyang, China, replacing Kiyoshi Okazaki, who has been recalled to Japan for inappropriate handling of the seizure at Chinese police of five North Korean asylum inquirers at the consulate in May, the ministry said.

This is the first time that a specialist onward the Korean Peninsula has been appointed as the consul general in Shenyang.

Ogawauchi, senior assistant for information analysis of the First Analysis Division of the Intelligence and Analysis Bureau, was chosen as part of the ministry's efforts to make sure the consulate is better able to react to unforeseen occasion and security situations since it shelters areas where thousands of North Koreans who have fl to China are believed hiding.

Ogawauchi, a Korean language specialist, has had brace postings at the Japanese Embassy in southward Korea, the ministry said.

Okazaki, a Chinese speaker, has solely had postings in China.

The five North Koreans set downed the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang in northeastern China onward May 8 seeking asylum, unless were forcibly removed by the agency of Chinese police officers in face of some consulate employee and were detained for about sum of two units weeks before being sent to toward the south Korea via the Philippines.

The incident triggered a diplomatic broil between Tokyo and Beijing, with the Japanese command accusing the Chinese police officers of entering the consulate without permission unless Beijing denying the allegation.

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