Woman returns to N. Korea after 'forcibly taken' to Japan

Woman returns to N. Korea after 'forcibly taken' to Japan

PYONGYANG, North Korea - To Chu Ji (C), 57, a North Korean woman who claims to have been forcibly taken to Japan in 2003, is reunited with relatives at Pyongyang airport on her return there after living in Japan for more than three and a half years.

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