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BY JEYUP S. KWAAK
SEOUL—South Korea rejected Laos’s account of how Seoul responded to the detention and eventual repatriation of nine North Korean refugees from the Southeast Asian nation this week, saying its diplomats sought to protect the defectors from the day of their detainment.
Laotian foreign ministry officials have argued that the South Korean Embassy in Laos made no attempt to help the escapees after their arrest about three weeks ago near the Chinese border until their deportation on Monday. The ministry repeated its position on Friday amid criticism the country endangered the refugees by …
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