N. Korean defectors in Japan

N. Korean defectors in Japan

OMURA, Japan - A bus carrying North Korean defectors enters an immigration facility in Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2011. The Japanese government plans to transfer the defectors, a group of nine people including three children who were found adrift aboard a wooden boat off the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, to South Korea in accordance with their desire.

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