N. Korea opens Japanese burial site to Kyodo News

N. Korea opens Japanese burial site to Kyodo News

Photo taken Nov. 8, 2015, shows a burial site in Chongyu in North Pyongan Province, where North Korea says 484 Japanese were buried around the end of World War II. The site, currently a general cemetery, was identified in August and opened to Kyodo News, in the first access granted to media. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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