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** FILE ** In this photo taken Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, and released by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Koreans work in a field damaged by Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, in Sukchon Country, western North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

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Defectors from North Korea and conservative activists release balloons with leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. North Korea celebrated its 62nd anniversary Thursday with odes to supreme leader Kim and pilgrimages to his late father's statue amid suggestions that a political meeting believed aimed at promoting his son as successor is imminent. The writing on the balloons reads "Overthrow Kim Jong Il's dictatorship." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon))

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Balloons with leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong Il are released by defectors from North Korea and conservative activists at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of the Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. North Korea celebrated its 62nd anniversary Thursday with odes to supreme leader Kim and pilgrimages to his late father's statue amid suggestions that a political meeting believed aimed at promoting his son as successor is imminent. The writing on the balloons reads "Overthrow Kim Jong Il's dictatorship." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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North Korean defectors wearing military uniforms shout slogans during the launching ceremony of the North Korea People Liberation Front, a group intend to fight against North Korea leader Kim Jong Il, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. North Korea celebrated its 62nd anniversary Thursday with odes to supreme leader Kim Jong Il and pilgrimages to his late father's statue amid hints that a political meeting believed aimed at promoting his son as successor is imminent. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

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A large campaign poster on Monday promotes a Workers' Party conference in Pyongyang, North Korea. It is said to be the largest such gathering of the ruling communist party in 30 years. (Associated Press)

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In this image made on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, from China Central Television footage, North Korea's Kim Jong-il (third from left) applauds with Chinese President Hu Jintao (right) during a banquet in Changchun, in northeast China's Jilin province, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN)

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A Chinese paramilitary police man gestures for a photographer to stop shooting pictures outside the Nan Hu hotel where North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is believed to be staying after he arrived at Changchun in northeastern China's Jilin province on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was said to be traveling with his youngest son on a rare trip to China on Friday, re-igniting speculation the younger Mr. Kim will take over the reigns of the reclusive communist nation in coming years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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American Aijalon Gomes, center, prepares to leave North Korea from Pyongyang airport, on Friday, Aug, 27, 2010. Mr. Gomes, freed after nearly seven months jailed in North Korea, left Pyongyang on Friday in the company of the former President Jimmy Carter. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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Former President Jimmy Carter, second left, and Aijalon Gomes, right, hugs as they prepare to leave North Korea from Pyongyang, on Friday Aug. 27, 2010. Mr. Gomes was freed after nearly seven months jailed in North Korea. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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South Koreans watch a TV broadcasting file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, left, meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. News reports say Mr. Kim may have traveled to China in what would be his second visit to the country this year.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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South Koreans watch a TV broadcasting file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, center left, accompanied by Chinese President Hu Jintao, center, in their meeting, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. News reports say Mr. Kim may have traveled to China in what would be his second visit to the country this year.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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** FILE ** Former President Jimmy Carter (left) meets with North Korea's No. 2 official, Kim Yong Nam, at Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a child salutes former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, upon his arrival at the airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Carter arrived in North Korea on Wednesday on a mission U.S. officials said was aimed at bringing home an imprisoned American. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Ximeng)

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a child salutes former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, upon his arrival at the airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Mr. Carter arrived in North Korea on Wednesday on a mission U.S. officials said was aimed at bringing home an imprisoned American. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Ximeng)

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South Korean human rights activists participate in a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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South Korean human rights activists stage a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. Mr. Gomes was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor and fined $700,000 for entering the country illegally and for an unspecified "hostile act." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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A South Korean human rights activist holds up a defaced portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. Mr. Gomes was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor and fined $700,000 for entering the country illegally and for an unspecified "hostile act." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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North Korean Foreign Minister Park Ui Chun sits down next to his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi as they attend the plenary session of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Hoang Dinh Nam, Pool)

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North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun (center), surrounded by Vietnamese security staff, gets into a limousine to leave the main venue of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Hanoi on Thursday, July 22, 2010. The North Korea's top diplomat is on a damage-control mission this week at the Asian security meeting, pleading innocence in the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors and has been widely blamed on Pyongyang, an analyst said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hoang Dinh Nam, Pool)

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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2005 file photo, North Koreans perform with scarves showing the colors of the North Korean flag near an image of the flag formed by tens of thousands of children holding up colored cards during the annual massive propaganda spectacle known as a "mass game" held in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea said Thursday, July 22, 2010 it will stage massive propaganda spectacles next month amid lingering tensions over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)