9 N. Korean defectors leave for S. Korea

FUKUOKA, Japan - A Korean Air jet carrying nine North Korean defectors takes off from Fukuoka airport in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at 10:45 a.m. on Oct. 4, 2011. The transfer of the defectors who were found adrift on a wooden boat off Ishikawa Prefecture in September 2011 was arranged between Tokyo and Seoul in accordance with their wishes to seek asylum in South Korea.

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