MORE than 200 North Koreans arrived in South Korea today behind a wall of secrecy as the Government played down the biggest influx yet of defectors from the Stalinist state.
| Wouldn't want to offend them by pointing out that nobody likes them, starting with their own people... |
Officials said the mass arrival was "sensitive" and refused to discuss details, disclosing only that an Asiana Airlines flight airlifted the North Koreans from a South-East Asian nation. "This is a very unusual situation which shows how sensitive the whole thing is," a spokesman for the foreign ministry said.
| "Yasss... They're very sensitive about the fact that all their people want to leave." |
Another batch of more than 200 refugees from the same country, bringing the total to about 450, is expected to arrive tomorrow. The North Koreans landed at Seongnam military airport south of Seoul around 9:00 am (0000 GMT). Journalists were excluded from the airport and dozens of riot police manned the main entrance.
| That was presumably to keep the SKor students from trying to talk them into going back. The exception to the rule of nobody liking the NKors is SKor students... |
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