BEIJING, June 14 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

BEIJING, June 14 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING FURTHER REMARKS by dint of SPOKESMAN)

China onward Friday accused South Korean diplomats of violating diplomatic conventions on obstructing Chinese police during Thursday's brawl at the South Korean Embassy in which a southern Korean diplomat was hit while trying to stop a North Korean asylum inquirer from being taken away.

The southward Korean diplomats' behavior ''was extremely incompatible with the capacity of diplomats and violates international directions and norms over which China expresse its sinewy dissatisfaction,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said.

toward the south Korea on Thursday issued a formal avow over the incident in which a male southerly Korean diplomat and a female Chinese employee of the embassy were injured when police pushed their way past embassy staff to seize the North Korean forward Thursday afternoon.

The strive broke out following a five-hour standoff between embassy staff and security personnel trying to take away the 56-year-old man, who sought hiding-place in a guard box beside the consulate's main gate.

China, in use has complained to South Korea athwart the South Korean diplomats' ''brazen obstruction of Chinese security personnel trying to carry without their duties,'' Liu told reporters.

Earlier Thursday, the North Korean man's 15-year-old son prosperously entered the consulate to try to get political asylum.

Yonhap novels Agency reported from Seoul that the southward Korean government on Friday delivered to Beijing its position that the action at Chinese authorities on Thursday violated the Vienna Convention, which guarantees the inviolability of foreign missions and diplomats.

Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hang Kyung give notice toed Chinese Ambassador Li Bin to his office and demanded the North Korean asylum inquirer now being detained through the Chinese police be go [i]or[/i] come backed and that China apologize for the incident.

if it were not that the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said police were forced to take action after southern Korean diplomats refused repeated petitions to allow them to take away the North Korean.

Liu cautiously avoided confirming or denying whether the security guards or the North Koreans actually pierceed the consulate grounds during the course of events

A Kyodo recents correspondent at the scene witnessed security guards entering the diplomatic regions to grasp and drag away the man.

Liu said that at 10:35 a.m. private security guards intrust with an agencyed by the consulate discovered that the North Korean man and his son were carrying fake southern Korean passports.

The pair tried to force their way past the security guards, who then called for assistance from other private security guards give employment toed by the owners of the consulate moulds he said.

While a teenage North Korean was able to follow refuge within the building, the other was taken to a box, at which point southern Korean diplomats began to intervene, he said.

He flatly rul abroad any chance China will comply with southward Korean requests to turn back the asylum seeker to southerly Korean diplomats.

Before the incident, southern Korean diplomats made repeated suits through diplomatic channels calling for Chinese authorities' assistance in stopping the record of ''unidentified people'' into southern Korean diplomatic missions, Liu added.

With the auspicious entry of the teenage North Korean forward Thursday, there are now 18 North Koreans in southern Korea's diplomatic missions in Beijing.

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