Tokyo
Between 1959 and 1984, the North Korean and Japanese governments agreed, the first actively, the second tacitly, to migrate as many residents of Korean origin as possible from Japan to North Korea.
This program, co-financed by the two countries, overturned in twenty-five years 93,340 people (including 6,730 Japanese) from the Japanese economic-democratic miracle to the North Korean Stalinist hell.
“
A veritable state, mass kidnapping.
North Korea deceived these people, but Japan did nothing to correct them despite knowing that North Korea was far from the vaunted paradise.
My country also has a responsibility.
He must understand it to bring back those who can still be
“, denounces Fumiaki Yamada.
This "Righteous", a university professor in Osaka, devoted his career, sometimes at the risk of his life, to helping these "
repatriates"
to flee North Korea, through an association created in 1994. With others, he just got a small win...
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