N. Korea calls for Japanese response on remains issue

BEIJING, China - Jo Hui Sung, director of North Korea's Institute of History at the Academy of Social Sciences, shows Samhap-ri Cemetery in the vicinity of Pyongyang on June 22, 2012. North Korea has urged Japan to respond to its claim that it has found the remains of Japanese soldiers, military officials and civilians who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula during the final phase of World War II and in the confusion following it. Samhap-ri is one of two burial sites.