9 N. Korean defectors leave for S. Korea

FUKUOKA, Japan - A bus carrying nine North Korean defectors is parked beside a Korean Air jet at Fukuoka airport in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at around 9:40 a.m. on Oct. 4, 2011, ahead of their departure for South Korea in accordance with their wishes to seek asylum there. Tokyo and Seoul arranged the transfer of the defectors who were found adrift on a wooden boat off Ishikawa Prefecture in September 2011. (Kyodo)

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