Why nearly 100,000 people left Japan to move to North Korea | South China Morning Post

Between 1959 and 1984, about 94,000 people abandoned their lives in Japan to pursue fresh starts in North Korea. Almost all of them were ethnic Koreans who had ties to a prominent pro-North Korean lobby. Referred to as Zainichi Koreans – a Japanese word for foreign nationals “staying in Japan” – the group faced disc…

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