Red Army member appears in court

Yoshimi Tanaka, 49, a member of Japan's Red Army guerrilla faction, answers questions from reporters during a recess of a public hearing that began at a Thai court Thursday June 18. He admitted he and eight other members of the Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to North Korea in 1970 but pleaded not guilty to charges against him for passing counterfeit U.S. banknotes in the Thai resort city of Pattaya in 1996.

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