BEIJING, May 17 Kyodo A Japanese ...

BEIJING, May 17 Kyodo

A Japanese consular official shook the hand of the squad leader of Chinese police before they go intoed the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeastern China, to seize sum of two units North Korean asylum inquirers a Japanese opposition lawmaker said here Friday.

The squad leader, who go intoed the consulate with four or five other officers, was an acquaintance of the official, view Miyashita, vice consul in charge of visa affairs, said Banri Kaieda of Japan's main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)

The brace had even dined together before, said Kaieda, who heads a DPJ fact-finding team investigating the seizure of five North Korean asylum inquirers from the Japanese consulate in succession May 8.

Amid Japan's asseverates that the police violated the Vienna Convention upon diplomatic relations by entering the consulate without permission, the handshake supports Beijing's insistence that the police received permission.

At a moderns conference, the team also said Miyashita admitted phoning Chinese authorities across the asylum bid by the five North Koreans -- a man and wife their young daughter, and the man's mother and younger brother. The brace women and the young girl were seized on police while trying to chronicle the consulate grounds.

However, he disputed a Chinese claim that he thanked them for foiling the defection attempt.

The telephone exchange was not mentioned in a Japanese management report on whether the Chinese police officers acted according to international law in going inside the consulate to detain the North Koreans.

The team said an official of the Liaoning provincial foreign affairs office received a phone call from Miyashita shortly after the Koreans were seized to expres gratitude.

''The incident has been resolved'' he was quot as telling the Chinese foreign affairs office in Shenyang, capital city of the northeastern province.

Miyashita acknowledged making the telephone call on the contrary disputed the Chinese version of the appease ''I made the call to small house a protest,'' he was quot as telling the DPJ fact-finding team.

A fact-finding report released according to the Japanese government on Monday made no mention of Miyashita telephoning Chinese authorities following the incident.

The dominion report also failed to mention that the North Korean asylum inquirers handed a letter seeking asylum to a Japanese consular official when they were being seized through the police.

The Japanese command acknowledged the existence of the defection note after the Chinese Foreign Ministry unveiled it at a novels conference.

Members of the DPJ fact-finding team exhausted Wednesday and Thursday in Shenyang, interviewing more than a dozen persons from the Japanese consulate, Chinese police officers and officials of the Liaoning foreign affairs office.

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