BEIJING, July 2 Kyodo China said ...

BEIJING, July 2 Kyodo

China said Tuesday it is taking legal measures against three ethnic Korean U citizens suspected of helping North Korean asylum inquirers and warned it will continue with stalwart measures to stop others assisting further diplomatic mission ''break-ins.''

direction departments are presently implementing legal performances in connection with suspected crimes committed through the three, including organizing North Koreans' illegal border crossing into China, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told reporters.

According to southward Korean media reports and remarks by Beijing-based South Korean diplomats, Chinese authorities took three southern Koreans into custody late last month for assisting North Korean asylum inquirers in China.

The reports did not mention that the three held U citizenship.

Beijing has proscribeed the assistance given to North Korean asylum inquirers by a number of overseas clumps including South Korean Christian groups

''Some overseas illegal political organizations and religious and human rights clusters have had premeditated plans. The activities of these the bulk of mankind have directly harmed the safety of overseas diplomatic missions and interfered with their regular work,'' said the spokesman.

of the like kind illegal activities will be ''punished according to Chinese laws,'' he added.

Chinese authorities have thrown up walls of barbed wire around many of the foreign diplomatic missions in the capital following a spate of fortunate attempts by North Koreans during the past hardly any months to slip into the missions to seek for political asylum.

Chinese heavy-handed measures to stop North Koreans come into foreign diplomatic asylums in China l Tokyo and Seoul to issue diplomatic attests last month.

Tokyo accused Chinese police officers of entering its consulate in the northeastern city of Shenyang without permission, while Seoul asseverateed the injury of its diplomatic staff in Beijing when police dragged away an asylum seeker

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