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Jang Song Thaek

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows Jang Song Thaek (L), uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) and then vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, after viewing a military parade during a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the late leader and Kim's father Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Feb. 16, 2012. Jang was executed Dec. 12, 2013, after being accused of attempting to overthrow the regime.

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Murayama

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama is interviewed by Kyodo News in Oita, Oita Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2013.

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CTBTO executive secretary

VIENNA, Austria - Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization Executive Secretary Tibor Toth speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Vienna on Feb. 12, 2013.

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Train-truck collision

TAKASAGO, Japan - Photo shows a train operated by Sanyo Electric Railway Co. that derailed after colliding with a flatbed carrier truck at a crossing near Arai Station in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 12, 2013. Fifteen people were injured.

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15 injured in collision between train, truck

TAKASAGO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a derailed train operated by Sanyo Electric Railway Co. after a collision with a flatbed carrier truck at a crossing in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2013. Fifteen people were injured in the accident.

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Train-truck collision

TAKASAGO, Japan - Photo shows a train operated by Sanyo Electric Railway Co. that derailed after colliding with a flatbed carrier truck at a crossing near Arai Station in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 12, 2013. Fifteen people were injured.

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Train-truck collision

TAKASAGO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a train operated by Sanyo Electric Railway Co. that derailed after colliding with a flatbed carrier truck at a crossing near Arai Station in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 12, 2013. Fifteen people were injured.

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N. Korea conducts 3rd nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People walk in front of Pyongyang station in North Korea on Feb. 12, 2013. North Korea said it conducted its third nuclear test the same day, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Junko Koshino at carnival

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Japanese fashion designer Junko Koshino dances in a costume she designed at a carnival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 12, 2013.

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Train-truck collision

TAKASAGO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a train operated by Sanyo Electric Railway Co. that derailed after colliding with a flatbed carrier truck at a crossing near Arai Station in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 12, 2013. Fifteen people were injured.

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Junko Koshino at carnival

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Japanese fashion designer Junko Koshino dances in a costume she designed at a carnival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 12, 2013.

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Abductee's kin

KAWASAKI, Japan - (From L) Sakie and Shigeru Yokota answer reporters' questions in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, after North Korea conducted a third nuclear test on Feb. 12, 2013. Their daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at the age of 13.

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G-7 issues emergency statement

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso meets the press at the ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2013, after he and his Group of Seven counterparts issued an emergency statement. The G-7 finance chiefs pledged in the statement to avoid using monetary policy to control foreign exchange rates, saying they should be determined by the markets.

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N. Korea conducts 3rd nuclear test

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos shake hands ahead of their talks at the premier's office in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2013, in the wake of a nuclear test conducted by North Korea. Abe and Roos condemned North Korea's third nuclear test as a serious threat to international peace and security.

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N. Korea conducts 3rd nuclear test

TOKYO, Japan - A television on a street in Tokyo's Yurakucho district shows North Korea's broadcast reporting on the country's latest nuclear test on Feb. 12, 2013. North Korea said it conducted its third nuclear test, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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N. Korea conducts 3rd nuclear test

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a conservative civic group in South Korea try to tear the North Korean flag in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2013, in protest at North Korea's nuclear test conducted earlier in the day. North Korea said it conducted its third nuclear test, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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N. Korea conducts 3rd nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People walk in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Feb. 12, 2013. North Korea said it conducted its third nuclear test the same day, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Wrestling dropped for 2020 Olympics

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge (R) is pictured before an IOC executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 12, 2013. The meeting dropped wrestling from the Summer Olympic program from the 2020 Games.

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N. Korea conducts 3rd nuclear test

SEOUL, South Korea - A member of a conservative civic group in South Korea incinerates the North Korean flag in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2013, in protest at North Korea's nuclear test conducted earlier in the day. North Korea said it conducted its third nuclear test, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Artificial earthquake in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo shortly after noon on Feb. 12, 2013. An artificial earthquake was detected at 11:58 a.m. that day in North Korea, in a possible indication that the country has carried out its third underground nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

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Tokyo Commodity Exchange starts trading in 4 farm products

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Ezaki (L), president of Tokyo Commodity Exchange Inc., rings the bell during a ceremony at the exchange in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2013, before TOCOM started trading in four agricultural products transferred from the Tokyo Grain Exchange, which will be disbanded in March.

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Abe, Japan business leaders

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far R) speaks during his talks with the heads of Japan's three major business lobbies -- Yasuchika Hasegawa (far L), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Hiromasa Yonekura (2nd from L), chairman of the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, and Tadashi Okamura (3rd from L), chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry -- at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2013.

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Restoration of 'miracle pine'

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - A part of the trunk of the "miracle pine" that initially withstood the massive March 2011 tsunami is suspended from a crane to be planted into the ground in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2013, as restoration of the tree reached the final stage. The remnants of the tree were dissected in September 2012 into several parts for anti-decay treatment.

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LCCs reviving women's dream of becoming flight attendants

OSAKA, Japan - Eri Otsubo, who works as a flight attendant for Peach Aviation Ltd., is seen at Kansai airport on Feb. 12, 2013. Otsubo, who has a daughter at kindergarten, was employed by the low cost carrier in September last year, realizing the dream she had abandoned when a university student.

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Architect Kengo Kuma

TOKYO, Japan - Kengo Kuma, an internationally renowned Japanese architect who designed the new and fifth-generation Kabukiza theater in Tokyo's Ginza district, speaks during an interview at his office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Feb. 12, 2013.

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2 years after quake

NAMIE, Japan - Photos show a road jammed with evacuating cars in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), the day after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that triggered a nuclear disaster in the prefecture, and the same location on Feb. 28, 2013, where a checkpoint for a no-entry zone has been set up.

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2 years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an elementary school in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), the day after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same school on Feb. 27, 2013. The building is expected to be demolished and the school merged with another nearby.

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Guam rampage suspect pleads not guilty

GUAM, United States - Chad Ryan Desoto (C), the 21-year-old suspect in the Feb. 12, 2013, rampage on the Pacific island of Guam that left three dead and 12 others injured, appears before the judge in the Superior Court of Guam on Feb. 27, 2013. Through his lawyer, Desoto pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness.

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Guam rampage suspect pleads not guilty

GUAM, United States - Chad Ryan Desoto, the 21-year-old suspect in the Feb. 12, 2013, rampage on the Pacific island of Guam that left three dead and 12 others injured, appears before the judge in the Superior Court of Guam on Feb. 27, 2013. Through his lawyer, Desoto pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness.

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Guam rampage suspect pleads not guilty

GUAM, United States - Chad Ryan Desoto, the 21-year-old suspect in the Feb. 12, 2013, rampage on the Pacific island of Guam that left three dead and 12 others injured, appears before the judge in the Superior Court of Guam on Feb. 27, 2013. Through his lawyer, Desoto pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness.

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N. Korea after nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Koreans walk in a main area of Pyongyang on Feb. 18, 2013, nearly a week after the country's third nuclear test on Feb. 12, 2013.

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N. Korea after nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean children walk in Pyongyang on Feb. 18, 2013, nearly a week after the country's third nuclear test on Feb. 12, 2013.