中國已放五名朝鮮出逃者到南韓！！

SEOUL: China has allowed five North Korean defectors to leave for South Korea after they spent months or years holed up in Seoul's Beijing embassy to avoid arrest, media reports say.

Chosun Ilbo newspaper, citing a diplomatic source, said they arrived in South Korea on Sunday after China changed its policy of refusing to let them depart.

Yonhap news agency and other media carried similar reports, and said China was also considering allowing the departure of seven others trapped for at least two years in South Korea's consulates in Shenyang and Shanghai.
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China arrests and repatriates fugitives from North Korea, considering them to be economic migrants rather than refugees. South Korea and international rights groups have urged it to change the policy, saying returnees face harsh punishment.

The five who were allowed to leave Beijing include a daughter of a former South Korean soldier who was taken prisoner during the 1950-1953 war and her two children, including a 17-year-old boy, Dong-A Ilbo newspaper said.

They had spent almost three years in the Beijing mission.

Seoul's foreign ministry declined to comment.