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Yoshitsune Minamoto
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North Korea border guard shoots dead three in China
China has lodged a formal complaint with North Korea after one of the North's border guards shot and killed three people and wounded a fourth on the countries' border in north-eastern China last week.
By Peter Foster in Beijing
Published: 11:48AM BST 08 Jun 2010
A North Korean soldier on the banks of the Yalu River near North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite Chinese border town of Dandong Photo: REUTERS
Beijing has refused to condemn North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean warship last March, but said that it had complained to Pyongyang over the shootings.
"On the morning of June 4, some residents of Dandong, in Liaoning province, were shot by a DPRK [North Korean] border guard on suspicion of crossing the border for trade activities, leaving three dead and one injured," a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said.
"China attaches great importance to that and has immediately raised a solemn representation with the DPRK. Now the case is under investigation," he added. There have been some reports in South Korean media on the incident, though North Korea has not acknowledged the shootings. Dandong is a major shipping point and rail link for goods going into and out of North Korea from China.
