 PROFILE/ Akihiko Kaise, correspondent in the Seoul Bureau of The Asahi Shimbun: He joined The Asahi Shimbun Co. in 1989. He worked for the City News Section in Osaka and the Asian General Bureau in Bangkok and served as a deputy editor at the Foreign News Section, among other stints, before being assigned to his current post in January 2012. He is 46 years old.
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 Former "defectors from the North" hold a news conference in Pyongyang on Jan. 24. This photo was distributed by the Korean Central News Agency. (Provided by the Korea News Service)
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 A former defector from North Korea holds a news conference in Pyongyang on June 28, 2012. This photo was distributed by the Korean Central News Agency. (Provided by the Korea News Service)
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 Officials cut a ribbon to celebrate the opening of a second Hanawon, a new resettlement support center for North Korean defectors, in Gangwon province, South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2012. (Akihiko Kaise)
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 Officials plant a tree to celebrate the opening of the second Hanawon in Gangwon province, South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2012. (Akihiko Kaise)
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 Cho Myung-chul, the first defector from North Korea to sit on South Korea's national assembly, speaks to encourage his fellow defectors during the opening ceremony of the second Hanawon in Gangwon province, South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2012. (Akihiko Kaise)
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Three former North Korean defectors to the South, back in their home country, criticized South Korean society and their former lives there at a news conference in the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said.
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