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Unidentified members of the opposition Democratic United Party watch TV news reporting exit polls on their presidential candidate, Moon Jae-in, in South Korea's presidential elections at the party headquarters in Seoul on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)

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Moon Jae-in, the South Korean opposition Democratic United Party's presidential candidate, and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, cast their votes in the presidential election at a polling station in Busan, South Korea, south of Seoul, on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Hyun-tai)

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U.S. tanks move during a military exercise near the Demilitarized Zone between South and North Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, on Dec. 13, 2012. (Associated Press)

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The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 sits on its launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. South Korea on Thursday scrapped an attempt to fire its first satellite into orbit from its own soil amid speculation that North Korea was preparing to fire its own long-range rocket. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Shin Jun-hee)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin participate in a joint news conference at the Pentagon in suburban Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Pro-North Korean activists stage a rally to stop the sending of anti-North Korea leaflets across the border on the road in Paju, near the Demilitarized Zone, in South Korea on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. North Korea's military warned last week that it would strike if South Korean activists carried through with their plan to fly balloons carrying the propaganda leaflets across the border. South Korea pledged to retaliate if it was attacked. The placards translate as "Stop sending anti-North Korea leaflets." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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Police officers block an activist in a car carrying anti-North Korea leaflets in Paju, near the Demilitarized Zone, in South Korea on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. South Korea banned the activists Monday from entering a border area where they planned to launch anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea, an unusual move that the activists likened to surrender. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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North Korean defector Park Sang-hak protests as police block his planned rally on a road in Paju, near the demilitarized zone, in South Korea on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. South Korea has banned activists from launching propaganda leaflets into North Korea after the North threatened to attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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North Korean defectors shout slogans as police officers block their planned rally on a road in Paju, near Demilitarized Zone, in South Korea, on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. South Korea has banned activists from launching propaganda leaflets to North Korea after the North threatened to attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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North Korean defector Park Sang-hak hurls anti-North Korea leaflets as police block his planned rally on a road in Paju, near the Demilitarized Zone, in South Korea on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. South Korea banned activists from launching the propaganda leaflets to North Korea after the North threatened to attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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In the dizzying world championships of the online battle arena game “League of Legends,” Taiwan’s Taipei Assassins defeated South Korea’s Azubu Frost in California on Saturday to claim the tournament’s $1 million grand prize. (Riot Games via Associated Press)

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South Korean soldiers stand guard at a traffic control gate near the truce village of Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. A North Korean soldier killed two of his superiors Saturday and defected to South Korea across the countries' heavily armed border in a rare crossing that prompted South Korean troops to immediately beef up their border patrol, officials said. (AP Photo/Bae Jung-hyun, Yonhap)

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“If we have some cracks in the bilateral relationship between Japan and Korea, then it will affect the whole security situation in Asia,” South Korean official Hong Sungmog said Tuesday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)