Visit to N. Korea burial site

CHONGJIN, North Korea - Japanese nationals, bereaved family members of those who lost their lives in what is now North Korea, visit a site on Oct. 24, 2012, in Komusan, north of Chongjin in northeastern North Korea, which is believed to contain the remains of about 2,000 Japanese soldiers and security personnel who died at a prison camp around the end of World War II.

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