South Korean protesters shout slogans as they burn anti-Japanese banners at a rally against Japan's plan to send survey ships near the islands called Tokto in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul April 20, 2006. South Korea called in Japan's envoy on Thursday to try to avert a high-seas showdown over a set of desolate islands claimed by both countries. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Former South Korean spy soldiers, who were trained to infiltrate North Korea, burn a picture symbolising the Japanese flag at a rally against Japan's plan to send survey ships near the islands called Tokto in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul April 21, 2006. Japan is sending a senior envoy to Seoul on Friday to try to find a middle ground in a standoff over a group of desolate islands claimed by both countries that has jarred an already strained relationship between the two. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
South Korean protesters burn a Japanese military flag at a rally against Japan's plan to send survey ships near disputed islands, called Tokto in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, in front of the head office of the foreign ministry in Seoul, April 21, 2006. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
An anti-Japan rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. South Korea has established a presidential taskforce to tackle a territorial row with Japan over islets in the sea between the two countries(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)
South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu, swarmed with bees, jumps into Japanese flag and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's picture in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. Ahn, a local bee farmer, released over 200,000 bees and attracted them to his body to highlight his protest against Japan's sovereignty claims over South Korea's Dokdo islets. The words written in Japanese read ' Dokdo is South Korea's land.' (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu is swarmed with 180,000 bees, which he released, during his protest in Seoul against Japan's sovereignty claims over the desolate islands called Tokto in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan May 2, 2006. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu, who is swarmed with 180,000 bees which he released, writes calligraphy during his protest in Seoul against Japan's sovereignty claims over the desolate islands called Tokto in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan May 2, 2006. The calligraphy reads, 'Tokto is South Korea's land'. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
South Korean police patrol on a group of desolate volcanic islets Seoul and Pyongyang call Tokto and Tokyo calls Takeshima, which lie almost midway between the mainlands of Korean peninsula and Japan, May 10, 2006. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
American stuntman David Blaine holds his breath on live television during his unsuccessful attempt at a record for holding his breath underwater at Lincoln Center in New York May 8, 2006. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
American magician David Blaine floats in his water-filled glass sphere where he is spending seven days and nights underwater at Lincoln Center in New York May 6, 2006. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
An oxygen mask is placed on David Blaine after he was brought to the surface when his body showed signs of danger during Blaine's attempt to break the world record for being submerged in water for nine minutes, New York, Monday, May 8, 2006. Blaine was pulled out of the sphere at the seven minute, eight second mark. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
American magician David Blaine holds his wrinkled and cracked hands out the water-filled glass sphere for treatment from his medical team at the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center, in New York, May 5, 2006. Blaine, who is now on his fifth day of his seven day underwater stunt, receives regular treatment for his skin from his medical team. At the end of the stunt titled 'Drowned Alive,' Blaine will attempt to hold his breath under water longer than any other human has ever accomplished. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Stunt artist David Blaine, immersed in an 8-foot sphere filled with water, writes 'Hi' on a slate to visitors observing his latest stunt, in the plaza of New York's Lincoln Center, Monday May 1, 2006. The shirtless, 33-year-old magician, an oxygen tube in his mouth, will spend a week living in the sphere and as a finale will try to hold his breath underwater to surpass a record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds. In an added display of extreme multitasking, Blaine will try to escape from 150 pounds of chains and handcuffs during the breath-holding finale on live television. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
International performance artist and magician David Blaine floats inside a glass sphere filled with water at Lincoln Center in New York where he will spend seven days and nights underwater, 01-08 May 2006, living in an eight-foot acrylic sphere with life support system in full public view.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
Magician David Blaine looks out from an eight foot sphere of water, after submerging himself into it, at Lincoln Center in New York, May 1, 2006. Blaine began a seven day endurance challenge ending with an attempt to set a world record for holding his breath. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
