SEOUL: Pyongyang's state media Friday claimed a group of 13 North Koreans working at a restaurant China had been tricked into defecting by South Korean spies.

The 13 -- a male manager and 12 female employees of a Pyongyang-run restaurant -- arrived in Seoul last week, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.

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