Associated Press, January 23, 2005
BEIJING -- Eight people who said they were North Korean asylum-seekers entered a Japanese school here early Monday and were taken to Japan's embassy, an embassy official said.
Five women, one man and two girls ran into the school shortly before 4 a.m., the official said. They handed over a note in English that said: "We are North Korean. We want to go to South Korea. Please call the Japanese Embassy. Help me," he said.
The school principal called the Japanese Embassy, which sent a bus to pick them up, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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