‘Return to paradise’, North Korea urged Japan’s Zainichi. Their reward? ‘So much pain and regret’
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Lured by Pyongyang’s propaganda, nearly 100,000 mostly ethnic Koreans left Japan for North Korea in the mid-twentieth century. But instead of a better life, all that awaited them was poverty, starvation, death and despair.