59 North Koreans arrested in Pathum Thani
Police have arrested 59 North Koreans who were trying to sneak to South Korea Embassy in Bangkok to seek asylum and resettlement.
Police said they will hold them for questioning before sending them to court to face charges of illegal entry and probably deportation.The group, including 10 children aged under 13, were arrested in a rented house in Pakkhong Rangsit district of Pathumthani province. "They said they were trying to go to the South Korean embassy in Bangkok to seek asylum because they didn't want to live in the land of their birth," said Challawudh in a telephone interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa. The 59 escapees from North Korea were the latest batch of hundreds of their countrymen who have crossed into China and Laos to travel to Thailand. In October, a Thai court charged 91 North Koreans, including 52 women and 13 children, with illegal entry and ordered them to seek refuge in a third country, namely South Korea.
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