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The Harbin city government of China unveils a bust of Ahn Jung-geun (1879-1910) to the public at Harbin Train Station, China, Sunday. Ahn assassinated then Japanese governor of Korea, Hirobumi Ito, in 1909 in the Chinese city. The local Chinese government responded positively to an earlier proposal from Korea to build a statue there. / Yonhap