BANGKOK (Reuters) - The 175 North Koreans detained in Thailand after smuggling themselves out of the reclusive communist state could be sent to South Korea soon, a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday.
Thai police arrested the North Koreans, most of them women and children, at a house near the South Korean embassy in Bangkok on Tuesday after a tip-off from neighbours suspicious about so many people thronging around it.
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