Defectors tell court they were promised 'paradise on Earth' in North Korea
Before reading (or mocking these people w/o some understanding). As the article mentions, after WW 2, Koreans living in Japan were stripped of Japanese citizenship and the Japanese government spent many years trying to kick Koreans out of Japan (the government encouraged them to go to North Korea). Also, for the better part of 2 and a half decades after WW 2, North Korea (which had been the heart of the Japanese industrial base) was one of the wealthiest countries in east Asia (often 2nd only to Japan)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/14/defectors-tell-court-promised-paradise-on-earth-north-korea
Five people who say they were lured to North Korea decades ago as part of a resettlement programme have told a court in Japan they were promised a “paradise on Earth” but were instead denied basic human rights.
The plaintiffs – four ethnic Korean residents of Japan and a Japanese woman who went to the North with her Korean husband and their daughter – are seeking 100m yen (£644,000) in damages from the regime of Kim Jong-un.
While no one believes Kim will pay compensation if ordered to do so, the case is expected to highlight the plight of tens of thousands of people – mainly Koreans and their Japanese spouses – who went to live in the North as part of a programme operated by the countries’ Red Cross societies and funded by Pyongyang.
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Most of the settlers were among hundreds of thousands of Koreans who had worked in mines and factories in Japan, many against their will, during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, and 1,830 Japanese women who had married Korean men.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/14/defectors-tell-court-promised-paradise-on-earth-north-korea
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Of course not.
"many against their will" is the Japanese euphemism for their own slave labor war crimes.
How diplomatic of the Guardian to adopt the Japanese expression.
Anyone who thinks that the Japanese are going to get the upper hand in a propaganda war against their 20th Century victims just doesn't understand the history or culture of mainland Asia.
(Source- 호사카유지TV "Oh My TV" youtube 10.9) Hosaka Yuji, Ph.D. political science, Seoul University (left); Taro Aso (center) and Shinzo Abe (right) both heirs of Pacific War war criminals. Their right wing factions still control the Japanese government. The caption says Abe and Aso got everything they wanted (in the Kishida transition to PM).
