The 25 North Koreans who made a dramatic bid for asylum at Beijing's Spanish Embassy on Thursday are now in the Philippines awaiting a flight to South Korea. A Philippine official said the group would leave for South Korea on Monday after spending the weekend at a safe house. The group had forced their way into the embassy and threatened to commit suicide if China tried to send them back home. Philippine National Security Adviser Roilo Golez said the asylum-seekers would stay 72 hours in transit in the country. He said that the 13 men and 12 women, who are aged from about 14 to 52, were "a little stressed out".
You can bet they are. And Custer had "a few Indians." |