WASHINGTON, June 13 Kyodo The U d...

WASHINGTON, June 13 Kyodo

The U direction on Thursday expressed concerns from one side of to the other Chinese police's action toward a North Korean asylum inquirer at the South Korean Embassy in Beijing and emphasized the importance of international conventions that bind diplomatic relations.

''We certainly regard the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises as the bedrock principle that is essential to the guard of international relations, and we calculate upon all nations to abide absolutely by the agency of their solemn legal obligations regarding of the like kind inviolability under the Vienna Conventions,'' State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said.

Chinese police set ined uninvited into the compound of the toward the south Korean Embassy Thursday afternoon and forcibly remov a North Korean man who was seeking asylum.

Reeker said while the incident is a matter to be handled by the agency of the governments concerned, the U control continues to press China that ''North Koreans should not be replyed to face persecution in North Korea.''

''China is party to the 1967 UN Protocol forward Refugees and expect that they will adhere to international obligations in subordination to that agreement,'' he said.

China views North Koreans who have fl to China as economic migrants, not refugees

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