(3)29 defectors from N. Korea seek asylum in Japanese school

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Takahashi (L), principal of the Japanese school in Beijing, and Japanese Minister to China Hidehisa Horinouchi speak to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Sept. 1 after 29 people claiming to be North Korean asylum-seekers entered the school after cutting a hole through a wire portion of fence.

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