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Axis of Evil
19 NKors on their way to new homes in SKor...
2002-10-11
With baseball hats, backpacks and even a stuffed dog, 19 teenagers and adults believed to be North Korean asylum-seekers walked out of the South Korean visa office in Beijing on Friday, headed for Seoul by way of the Philippines. The group, 13 women and six men, were seen boarding a bus outside the visa office just before 2 p.m. local time. It departed along with a car carrying South Korean diplomatic license plates. They arrived Friday evening in Manila, the Philippine capital, for a transit stop and were scheduled to leave later for South Korea without leaving the airport. The asylum-seekers, aged 13 to 41, are believed to have entered the consulate over the past several weeks. It was unclear if they entered all at once or sporadically.
I may have asked this question before: "What if they gave a dictatorship of the proletariat and nobody came?"
Telephones at the Chinese Foreign Ministry's press office rang busy Friday afternoon.
"Taking the phones off the hook was a pretty good idea, Wang."
"You said it! What say we send out for American and spend the afternoon watching TV?"
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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