Remains unearthed at "new burial site" for Japanese war dead

Remains unearthed at "new burial site" for Japanese war dead

People look at the purported remains of Japanese World War II soldiers unearthed from a farming filed in Hamhung, eastern North Korea, on Nov. 5, 2015. Kyodo News was given access to the field, one of the two locations that Pyongyang says are newly found burial sites for Japanese nationals who died around the end of the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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