Families which returned to N. Korea recall hardships

Families which returned to N. Korea recall hardships

OSAKA, Japan - Former Korean residents of Japan, who went to North Korea under the Pyongyang government's plan, recall the hardships they underwent in their ancestral land. A total of 11 people, including the second-generation families born in North Korea, and who all now live in South Korea, gave their accounts at a press conference in Osaka on Feb. 28.

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