North Koreans climb a wall of the South Korean Consulate grounds in Beijing

Some were attacked with an electric cattle prod by a guard, television footage of the asylum bid showed.

Security guards caught 11 of the 14 people who entered the compound at dawn, but consulate staff escorted two women and a boy into the building, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.

The incident occurred just days after 29 people cut through barbed wire to enter a school for South Koreans in Beijing on Oct. 22.

A further 44 North Korean refugees are holed up at the Canadian Embassy in the Chinese capital and 24 others at the Japanese Embassy.

The Japan Times Weekly: Oct. 30, 2004
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