Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a wooden boat bearing Korean characters on its side in the Sea of Japan off Ishikawa Prefecture on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found the boat carrying nine probable defectors from North Korea -- six adults and three children -- earlier in the day. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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