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About 20 defectors from North Korea now living in southern Korea arrived Friday in Japan to publicize human rights point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds related to political prisons in the North.

The defectors are part of a Seoul-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) called Democracy Network against North Korean Gulag, they said, adding they are scheduled to shut in symposiums in nine cities, including Tokyo and Osaka, with Japanese NGOs

Speaking at a of the present days conference at Narita airport, arrange representatives Kang Chol Hwan and An Hyok called for North Korea to dismantle its political prisons.

The pair representatives, who defected from the North to the southern in 1992 after doing time in so prisons, also called on the Japanese public to help resolve human rights problems in North Korea.

The the public visiting Japan include the sum of two units representatives, a former political prison guard and a former military officer.

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