Civic groups release balloons with leaflets near N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese and South Korean civic group members release balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets near the border with the North in Cheolwon in South Korea's Gangwon Province, on June 23, 2010. The Japanese group campaigns on behalf of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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