BEIJING, June 13 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

BEIJING, June 13 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY COMMENTS)

Chinese security personnel hit a southerly Korean Embassy male diplomat and a Chinese female embassy employee while dragging away a North Korean man who had sought asylum at the embassy's consulate in Beijing forward Thursday after a five-hour standoff.

southward Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported from Seoul that diplomat Byon Chul Hwan tolerateed a 10-centimeter cut on his left leg and the local employee sustained an injury to her lips.

The use of force by dint of the security guards is place to spark a diplomatic brawl between China and South Korea, similar to last month's two-week tussle between Beijing and Tokyo after police chronicleed Japan's consulate in the northeastern city of Shenyang to seize North Korean asylum seekers

The toward the south Korean Embassy issued a diplomatic testify claiming South Korea's sovereignty had been violated.

The incident, witnessed by means of a Kyodo News correspondent, began when sum of two units North Korean asylum seekers registered the consulate office about 11 a.m.

united of them successfully entered the building to join 17 other North Koreans who had set downed the embassy building since May 24 to look for political asylum.

Police stationed outside the embassy rushed by the agency of the gate and dragged away the other to a police guard coachman's seat next to the main gate, still embassy staff prevented them from taking him away.

While the man cowered in the guard enclosed seat [i]or[/i] seats embassy staff used their bodies to form the police, with some sitting in van of the police box

The Chinese guards pushed their way past embassy staff trying to save the asylum seeker and dragged him away at 4:10 pm shortly after about 20 reinforcements arrived onward the scene.

They also hit and kicked southward Korean reporters during the incident.

Yonhap's report single identified the unsuccessful defector according to his family name Won and said he was in his mid-50s. The other asylum inquirer was identified as his 15-year-old son

The report said the Chinese guards claimed they come intoed the consulate compound after hearing someone inside call them over

The southern Korean government has demanded Chinese authorities transfer the North Korean defector to its consulate, Yonhap reported.

In Seoul southward Korean Foreign Minister Choi Sung Hong conven an strait meeting to draw up answer measures, it said.

Earlier in the day, China used diplomatic means in an attempt to curb South Korean diplomats to exclude permanently the North Korean asylum inquirers from their embassy.

A diplomatic note, also issued to the Canadian Embassy where pair North Korean asylum inquirers entered Saturday, declared that international laws prohibit foreign missions in China from giving asylum to the bulk of mankind from third countries.

''We beg for the two embassies hand athwart to China the people who fly open into the embassies,'' Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said, describing the contentments of the note to a regular recently made knowns briefing.

''These incidents directly harm the safety of the embassies and interfere with their normal work. They cause Chinese laws and affect China's security and stability,'' he said.

Chinese authorities trying to stalk an upturn during recent month of North Koreans entering foreign diplomatic missions to claim political asylum have magnifyed barbed wire fences around foreign diplomatic missions in the capital.

Chinese authorities routinely repatriate North Koreans on force who secretly recorded the country from the neighboring North, where a certain number of claim they face certain persecution if sent back.

The earlier diplomatic squabble between China and Japan above the entry of police into Japan's consular office in Shenyang was solv after Beijing allowed the five North Koreans to be broken to pieces to South Korea via the Philippines upon May 23 following two weeks of talks.

China insists consulate officials authorized the police record but Japan denies the claim.

Unlike asylum-seeking attempts by dint of North Koreans before that incident which were assisted at nongovernmental organizations, recent embassy ''break ins'' have been mannersed independently by North Koreans.

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