9 N. Korean defectors leave for S. Korea

OMURA, Japan - A bus carrying nine North Korean defectors leaves a Justice Ministry facility in the city of Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at around 8 a.m. on Oct. 4, 2011. The defectors, who were found adrift on a wooden boat off Ishikawa Prefecture in September 2011, departed for South Korea in accordance with their wishes from Fukuoka airport the same day.

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