
In a landmark ruling, a Japanese court ordered North Korea to pay compensation to victims of a mass repatriation program that ran between 1959 and 1984. More than 93,000 ethnic Koreans and their Japanese spouses were lured with the promise of “paradise on Earth” with free education, health care and guaranteed jobs, only to suffer human rights abuses, poverty and hunger. Yuka Royer talks to Human Rights Watch’s Kanae Doi about the significance of the court decision.
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