Temple drops plan to buy Chongryon site

Temple drops plan to buy Chongryon site

TOKYO, Japan - Ekan Ikeguchi, leader of Saifuku temple in Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks to reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 9, 2013. The priest said the temple will drop a plan to purchase the Tokyo headquarters site of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, because it is unable to pay 4.5 billion yen for the site by the May 10, 2013, deadline.

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