According to a report of Joong-Ang Daily of the ROK, the five unidentified consulate intruders are all members of the Chang Chi-chu clan, they received "help" from the "salvage headquarters of the Chang Chi-chu clan" in the course of their fleeing from home to the ROK, and this organization is in charge of providing "assistance" to escapists. A similar organization is the Japan-based "north Korean public emergency action network". The Joong-Ang Daily disclosed that two years ago, this organization carefully plotted the incident of seven escapists breaking into the Beijing Office of the United Nations Refugee Agency. The May 8 incident was no more than the continuation of the incident occurred two years ago.

The so-called North Korean public emergency action network is a human rights organization established in Osaka, Japan in 1993 which was made up mainly of Korean nationals in Japan and some Japanese. The organization has also set up secret branches in Japan's Tokyo and China's Yanji, which have drawn in hundreds of people. ROK media reports said that beginning from late 1997, in the border areas of China and Korea, they extended "help" to the escapists, and the situation about the escapists were reported through news media of the ROK. Kim Dong-kui, a representative of the "salvage headquarters of the Chang Chi-chu clan" inside the ROK is a professor of Korai (Korea) University; its general affairs bureau director Wen Kuo-han is an activist who had been engaged in trading work in China.

What sort of person is Chang Chi-chu? Korean resident Chang Chi-chu is 19 years old, 17 members of his family successively fled to China in the period between March 1997 and August 1999.

In October 1999, during the period when the "world non-governmental organizations meeting" was held in Seoul, Wen Kuo-han displayed some escape-related pictures drawn by Chang Chi-chu somewhere near the meeting-place in the hope of attracting the attention of the international community.

In May 2000, Wen Kuo-han again compiled these pictures for publication, and introduced things about Chang Chi-chu's family to the news media of the ROK. That same year, Wen presented a demand to the Beijing Office of the UN Refugee Agency for Chang Chi-chu, requesting the latter to recognize the qualifications of Chang's family members as refugees, but the request was turned down. Thereafter, he kept regular contacts with and raised money for Chang Chi-chu.

On June 15, 2000, Wen Kuo-han came to Yanji of China and, together with someone surnamed Cui, helped Chang and his family to come to Beijing from Dalian. Wen Kuo-han and others divided Chang's family of seven into several groups and sent them into the building of the Beijing office of the UN Refugee Agency. Afterwards, Wen immediately notified the press institutions of the ROK, Japan and Western countries of this piece of news, soon afterwards foreign reporters rushed to the spot and reported this event.

The day following the occurrence of the consulate intrusion incident, the Joong-Ang Daily published the photo taken by the Yonhap News Agency May 8. The picture shows some people standing on a high-rise building opposite the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, who were spying upon the situation about the said consulate. Obviously, ROK media had earlier got the news about these unidentified persons ready to burst into the consulate, they had prepared to take news pictures and then made a big fanfare about the matter.

The article of the Global Times said that the activities of these "non-governmental organizations" had aroused the dissatisfaction of justice-minded personages inside the ROK. They considered this to be a kind of "political intrigue" which was aimed at using the "human rights" issue as a weapon to deliberately worsen China's relations with neighboring countries.

( May 17, 2002)