N. Korea discloses new "burial sites" for Japanese war dead

N. Korea discloses new "burial sites" for Japanese war dead

Photo taken on Nov. 5, 2015, shows a communal cemetery in Hamhung, eastern North Korea. Kyodo News was given access to the cemetery, one of the two locations that Pyongyang says are newly found burial sites for Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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