ins. "We hope Canada will hand them over to the Chinese side to handle because we oppose this method of breaking into embassies as it relates to the issue of the security of embassies in China," Shen told reporters. "With these people, we will also handle them in accordance with international law, domestic law and humanitarianism." A Canadian Foreign Affairs spokeswoman said the North Korean asylum seekers would remain in the embassy compound for the time being. "It's still too early to anticipate how the situation will be resolved in this case but we are continuing to work with the Chinese government to resolve the situation along the lines of how it has been resolved in the past," she said. In two similar circumstances in 2002, Canadian diplomats escorted North Korean asylum seekers out of China, she said.
