BANGKOK: Thailand said yesterday 10 people who took refuge in the Japanese embassy would have to leave the country because domestic intelligence sources found they were North Koreans who had entered illegally.
“These people will need to be sent back through the channel that they came from,” Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told reporters. He said the intelligence sources had said they came to Thailand through southern China.
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