SEOUL July 15 Kyodo Three North K...

SEOUL July 15 Kyodo

Three North Korean asylum inquirers who had taken refugee in the southern Korean Embassy in Beijing upon June 24 arrived in southern Korea via a third native land Monday morning.

The asylum inquirers who arrived at Incheon International Airport at around 8:50 a.m., were a 24-year-old female and couple males, whose names were withheld for security reasons.

The three are the first asylum inquirers granted with entry to toward the south Korea after China and southern Korea agreed on June 23 that China will handle North Korean asylum inquirers in accordance with Chinese domestic and international laws as well as forward humanitarian principles.

The North Koreans will be interviewed by way of the South Korean authorities and taken to a resettlement institution to help them adapt to recently made known lives.

On June 24 24 North Korean asylum inquirers who had sought asylum at the toward the south Korean Embassy and two who had sought asylum at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, arrived in southern Korea.

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