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The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders

SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 4 Kyodo - The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders stand guard on Jul. 27, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building, in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders

SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 4 Kyodo - The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders stand guard on Jul. 27, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building, in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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South Korean soldiers stand guard

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 4 Kyodo - South Korean soldiers stand guard on Sept. 30, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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A South Korean soldier

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 4 Kyodo - A South Korean soldier (front) stands face-to-face with a North Korean soldier on July 27, 2017 at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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Kin visit Japanese abductee photo exhibition in Tokyo

TOKYO, Nov. 7 Kyodo - Sakie Yokota (R) speaks to reporters at a photo exhibition on Nov. 7, 2017, of her daughter Megumi, who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 at age 13.

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10,000 runners compete in 2022 Chengdu Marathon

STORY: 10,000 runners compete in 2022 Chengdu Marathon DATELINE: Nov. 20, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:13 LOCATION: CHENGDU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY/SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of 2022 Chengdu Marathon 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YANG HUA, Winner of the women's race STORYLINE: More than 10,000 runners joined the 2022 Chengdu Marathon early Sunday morning in southwest China's Sichuan Province. In the men's race, Guan Yousheng claimed the title in 2:15:06, while Yang Hua won in the women's competition by running the 42-kilometer track in 2:35:38. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): YANG HUA, Winner of the women's race "I did my best to complete the race. The encouragement and support from the spectators brought me a lot of confidence and helped me win the title." The Chengdu Marathon was first held in 2017. This year's Chengdu Marathon contained three events: marathon, half marathon and wheelchair race. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Chengdu, China. (XHTV)

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South Korean soldiers stand guard

South Korean soldiers stand guard on Sept. 30, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders

The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders stand guard on Jul. 27, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building, in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders

The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders stand guard on Jul. 27, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building, in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A South Korean soldier

A South Korean soldier (front) stands face-to-face with a North Korean soldier on July 27, 2017 at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. slaps more sanctions aimed at N. Korea

Combined file photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The United States on Nov. 21, 2017 announced additional sanctions targeting a Chinese individual, as well as 13 entities in China and North Korea, to disrupt Pyongyang's illicit funding of its weapons program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima: Final nuclear disposal site

Photo taken on Nov. 13, 2017, shows a nuclear disposal site in Fukushima, Japan, which will start receiving waste from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from Nov. 17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's online securities brokerage GMO tapping into Thailand

Masatoshi Kumagai (R), founder and group chief executive officer of Japan's GMO Internet Inc., and Kesara Manchusree (2nd from L), president of the Stock Exchange of Thailand, join other officials in a ceremony marking GMO's launch of online stock trading in Bangkok on Nov. 13, 2017. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor and empress at piano concert

Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko are pictured during a piano concert by Nobuyuki Tsujii in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2017. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese, Australian prime ministers meet in Manila

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull hold bilateral talks in Manila on Nov. 13, 2017, following their three-way meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Trump in Japan

U.S. President Donald Trump (C,R), alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C, L), speaks after a meeting at the State Guest House in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2017, with relatives of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago. Among the participants in the meeting were Sakie Yokota (R) whose daughter Megumi disappeared aged 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Dutch look to answer pitching questions in Tokyo

Netherlands coach and former Rakuten Eagles star Andruw Jones speaks to reporters at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 9, 2016, ahead of two friendlies against Japan on Nov. 12 and 13 as part of their buildup toward the 2017 World Baseball Classic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court orders suspension of nuclear reactor in western Japan

Photo taken Nov. 6, 2017, shows (anticlockwise from top R) the No. 1, 2 and 3 reactors of the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The Hiroshima High Court on Dec. 13 revoked a lower court decision and ordered the suspension of the No. 3 reactor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Padres meet with Ohtani, last to make presentation: report

File photo taken in Nov. 13, 2017, shows San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller talking about Japanese pitcher-slugger Shohei Ohtani in Orlando, Florida. The San Diego Union-Tribune has reported that the Padres met with Ohtani in Los Angeles on Dec. 5, making them the seventh and final team to make a presentation to him. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashima's Kanazaki, Kashiwa's Koike, Hosogai

Kashima Antlers' Mu Kanazaki (C) leaps over Kashiwa Reysol's Ryuta Koike (13) with Hajime Hosogai (37) looking on during the second half of a 0-0 draw in the J-League first division at Kashima Soccer Stadium in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Nov. 26, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Iran-Iraq border earthquake

Residents recover belongings from their damaged apartment in Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, on Nov. 13, 2017, a day after a magnitude-7.3 earthquake hit the border region between Iran and Iraq. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Hitomi Soga, one of the five Japanese abductees repatriated from North Korea in 2002, speaks to an audience in Niigata on Nov. 15, 2017, the day fellow abductee Megumi Yokota was taken by North Korean agents 40 years ago at age 13. Soga shared memories of a brief period when she lived with Yokota in North Korea and called for continued efforts to realize the return of Yokota and other abduction victims to Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Shigeru Yokota (R) and his wife Sakie, the parents of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, speak at a press conference in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Nov. 15, 2017, 40 years from the day their daughter was abducted by North Korean agents at age 13. Sakie and families of other abduction victims met U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo a week earlier, during which he vowed to make efforts to help resolve the issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Shigeru Yokota (far R) and his wife Sakie (2nd from R), the parents of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, speak to reporters in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Nov. 15, 2017, 40 years from the day their daughter was abducted by North Korean agents at age 13. Sakie and families of other abduction victims met U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo a week earlier, during which he vowed to make efforts to help resolve the issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima: Final nuclear disposal site

Photo taken on Nov. 13, 2017, shows a nuclear disposal site in Fukushima, Japan, which will start receiving waste from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from Nov. 17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gerald Curtis talks about Japan's Article 9

Veteran Japan scholar Gerald Curtis gives a speech at Columbia University in New York on Nov. 13, 2017. Curtis said it is less likely that Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution will be amended. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Sakie Yokota (L) and her husband Shigeru, the parents of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, speak at a press conference in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Nov. 15, 2017, the day their daughter was abducted by North Korea 40 years ago at age 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Sakie Yokota (L) and her husband Shigeru, the parents of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, speak at a press conference in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Nov. 15, 2017, the day their daughter was abducted by North Korea 40 years ago at age 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Shigeru Yokota (L) and his wife Sakie, the parents of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, leave after attending a press conference in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Nov. 15, 2017, the day their daughter was abducted by North Korea 40 years ago at age 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Shigeru Yokota (L) and his wife Sakie, the parents of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, leave after attending a press conference in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Nov. 15, 2017, the day their daughter was abducted by North Korea 40 years ago at age 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Shigeru Yokota (R) and his wife Sakie, the parents of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, speaks at a press conference in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Nov. 15, 2017, the day their daughter was abducted by North Korea 40 years ago at age 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Tampa Bay Rays GM Neander

Tampa Bay Rays general manager Erik Neander speaks to reporters in Orlando, Florida, on Nov. 13, 2017, where major league general managers meetings began. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yamato Holdings adopt automated packing machines

Photo shows Yamato Holdings' automated packing machine at a warehouse in Aikawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 13, 2017. Yamato is the first delivery company in Japan to use such a device. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Monju reactor inspection

The Nuclear Regulation Authority inspects the Monju prototype reactor in Fukui Prefecture on Nov. 13, 2017. The NRA demanded plans to decommission Monju be submitted as soon as possible. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. backs resolution for Olympic Truce during Pyeongchang 2018

South Korean Olympic gold medalist Kim Yu Na speaks at a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 13, 2017, after the U.N. General Assembly endorsed a resolution earlier in the day calling on nations to observe an Olympic Truce for the time at next year's Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: FIFA official match ball for 2018 World Cup finals

Photo taken on Nov. 13, 2017, shows official balls for the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals in Russia, which were used by Japan national team players during their training session a day before a friendly against Belgium in Bruges. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quake hits Iran-Iraq border

Children camp out in the village of Imam Abbas in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah on Nov. 13, 2017, after a magnitude-7.3 earthquake hit the border region between Iran and Iraq a day earlier and destroyed their houses. Relief supplies have been slow to reach the mountainous region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quake hits Iran-Iraq border

Local residents gaze at collapsed houses in the village of Imam Abbas in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah on Nov. 13, 2017, a day after a magnitude-7.3 earthquake hit the border region between Iran and Iraq. Relief supplies have been slow to reach the mountainous region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quake hits Iran-Iraq border

A man sits beside a tent in the village of Imam Abbas in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah, on Nov. 13, 2017, a day after a magnitude-7.3 earthquake hit the border region between Iran and Iraq. Relief supplies have been slow to reach the mountainous region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. ambassador, Okinawa governor meet

U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty (L) and Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga hold their first meeting at the prefectural government office in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 13, 2017. Onaga expressed his frustration over the heavy local U.S. military presence and said an ongoing plan to move a key U.S. air base within Okinawa amounted to "discrimination" against the island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor and empress at piano concert

Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii plays at a concert attended by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at a concert hall in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2017. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor and empress at piano concert

Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii plays at a concert attended by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at a concert hall in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2017. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor and empress at piano concert

Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko are pictured during a piano concert by Nobuyuki Tsujii in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2017. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest against U.S. climate policy

A group of protesters stand up and sing to interrupt a press conference in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 13, 2017, given by U.S. officials who gave a briefing on Washington's energy policy on the sidelines of the so-called COP23 U.N. conference on climate change. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. commerce chief urges Japan carmakers to cut exports

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaks at a U.S.-Japan Council event in Washington on Nov. 13, 2017. Ross urged Japanese automakers to reduce exports from Japan and Mexico while beefing up production in the United States so as to slash the huge U.S. trade deficit with Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan national soccer team

Players of the Japanese men's national soccer team train in Bruges, Belgium, on Nov. 13, 2017, a day before a friendly match against Belgium. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan soccer coach Halilhodzic

Japan national soccer team coach Vahid Halilhodzic gives instructions to his players during a training session held in Bruges, Belgium, on Nov. 13, 2017, a day before a friendly against Belgium. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan soccer coach Halilhodzic

Japan national soccer team coach Vahid Halilhodzic speaks at a press conference in Bruges, Belgium, on Nov. 13, 2017 a day before a friendly against Belgium.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan soccer coach Halilhodzic

Japan national soccer team coach Vahid Halilhodzic speaks at a press conference in Bruges, Belgium, on Nov. 13, 2017 a day before a friendly against Belgium.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan soccer coach Halilhodzic

Japan national soccer team coach Vahid Halilhodzic speaks at a press conference in Bruges, Belgium, on Nov. 13, 2017 a day before a friendly against Belgium.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo