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DEFECTION VIA MANILA NOT TO UNDERMINE N.KOREAN- PHILIPPINE TIES.

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MANILA, July 2 Asia Pulse - The defection Saturday of seven North Koreans to South Korea via the Philippines will not adversely affect the relations between Pyongyang and Manila which normalized ties last year, a Philippine Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.

In a telephone interview with Yonhap News Agency, the official said that his government allowed the North Korean defectors to stay in the Philippines on a humanitarian ground, predicting that the incident will not aggravate relations between the two countries.

The official, speaking on a private basis, said that the Manila government did not ...

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