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Tokyo court issues summons for Kim Jong-un in North Korean ‘kidnapping’ lawsuit | South China Morning Post

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On October 14, 2021, five North Korean defectors living in Japan called on Kim Jong-un to appear before a Tokyo district court in a lawsuit over a 1959 Korean repatriation programme they liken to kidnapping. More than 90,000 ethnic Koreans, and their Japanese wives, were repatriated to North Korea as part of a Pyong…

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