Japanese court holds North Korea accountable for deceptive repatriation campaign
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Japanese court holds North Korea accountable for deceptive repatriation campaign

2026-01-30

In a landmark ruling, a Japanese court has ordered North Korea to pay compensations to victims of a mass repatriation programme that ran between 1959 and 1984. More than 93,000 ethnic Koreans and their Japanese spouses were lured by the promise of a "paradise on Earth" with free education, healthcare and guaranteed jobs, only to suffer human rights abuses, poverty and famine. Yuka Royer speaks with Human Rights Watch's Kanae Doi about the significance of the court decision.

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