N. Korea scholar hopes for solution to remains issue

N. Korea scholar hopes for solution to remains issue

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Jo Hui Sung, director of the Institute of History at the Academy of Social Sciences, speaks during a group interview in Pyongyang on Aug. 29, 2012. The senior North Korean historian expressed hope that Japan and North Korea will address the issue of the retrieval of the remains of Japanese nationals who died in what is now North Korea around the end of World War II in a swift fashion.

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