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 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - More than 400 North Koreans being held in a Thai immigration facility have launched a hunger strike, demanding they be sent to South Korea, Thai police and an activist group said.
Thai immigration police officer Lt. Col. Pricha Daengsirirat confirmed that the North Koreans, seeking asylum in South Korea, launched a hunger strike Wednesday morning. The officer said South Korean diplomats came to help negotiate with the refugees at the detention center in Bangkok.
The North Koreans — 100 men and 314 women — have been in the cramped detention center for about three months and are waiting to leave for South Korea, Lee Ho-taeg, an official of a South Korean group that aids North Korean asylum seekers, said in Seoul.
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