A new bronze statue depicting the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (right) and his father, Kim Il-sung, stands on the grounds of the Mansudae Art Studio after it was unveiled in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Yang Hyong-sop, vice president of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, meets with a delegation from the Associated Press at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
** FILE ** This Nov. 12, 2011, photo shows the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Japan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)
Under framed portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung (left) and his son, Kim Jong-il, airline passengers arrive at the Pyongyang, North Korea, airport on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. North Korean state media reported Monday that Kim Jong-il died on Saturday of a heart attack. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
** FILE ** North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (left) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright at the Pae Kha Hawon Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 23, 2000. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool)
Farmers work in a field outside the eastern coastal city of Wonsan, North Korea, on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
A resident of Japan's Oshima island pushes a wheelbarrow past the destroyed port as he tries to salvage belongings from his home on Monday, March 28, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Two women, using golf clubs as walking sticks, scavenge for their belongings near a wrecked apartment block in the destroyed town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on Sunday, March 20, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
The body of a man from the village of Saito in northeastern Japan lies among the rubble on Monday, March 14, 2011. Rescue workers used chain saws and hand picks to dig out bodies in Japan's devastated coastal towns, as Asia's richest nation faced a mounting humanitarian, nuclear and economic crisis in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed thousands. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
