SEOUL: More than 200 North Koreans arrived in South Korea yesterday behind a wall of secrecy as the government played down the biggest influx yet of defectors from the Stalinist state.
Officials said the mass arrival was sensitive and refused to discuss details, disclosing only that an Asiana Airlines flight airlifted the North Koreans from a South-East Asian nation.
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