Beijing allowed the six defectors to travel to South Korea through a third country, reports said

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Beijing allowed the six defectors to travel to South Korea through a third country, reports said

Mark Ralston

File illustration photo shows the Yalu Bridge at the Chinese-North Korean border town of Dandong in December 2011. China has allowed six North Korean refugees to leave for South Korea after they spent months holed up in Seoul's consular offices in China, news reports said Friday.