THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 14, 2019 at 17:10 JST
A crowd of ethnic Koreans waves to those on board a ship heading for North Korea in 1959. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The promised "paradise of Earth" was anything but, as ethnic Koreans from Japan discovered after they took the first ship departing from Niigata Port for North Korea on Dec. 14, 1959. [Read More]
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