Leader of pro-Pyongyang group in Japan leaves for N. Korea

Leader of pro-Pyongyang group in Japan leaves for N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Ho Jong Man (R), chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, departs from Tokyo's Haneda airport for North Korea on Sept. 5, 2014. It is his first visit to North Korea since the Japanese government imposed a ban in 2006 on Chongryon executives re-entering Japan after trips to the North as part of Tokyo's unilateral sanctions in the wake of a missile launch by Pyongyang.

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