Slate recently published a good roundup of international media coverage on the recent incident involving North Korean asylum-seekers being forcibly and illegally removed from the Japanese consulate in Shenyang, China by Chinese police. A fascinating video (available here from the BBC — Real Player needed) was taken of the incident (apparently by a South Korean film crew tipped off in advance), and has been getting saturation play on Japanese TV for over a week now, as the story plays out and varying versions of what happened and who did or didn’t do what get revealed.
The Yomiuri Shinbun (as quoted in the Slate piece) I think summed up the incident best:
No better example of this than the images in the above-mentioned video of Japanese consulate officials retrieving the fallen caps of the Chinese police officers while the North Koreans are being dragged kicking and screaming from the consulate gates.