N. Korea calls for Japanese response on remains issue

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.

N. Korea discloses new "burial sites" for Japanese war dead

N. Korea discloses new "burial sites" for Japanese war dead

Photo taken on Nov. 5, 2015, shows a communal cemetery in Hamhung, eastern North Korea. Kyodo News was given access to the cemetery, one of the two locations that Pyongyang says are newly found burial sites for Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

N. Korea discloses "new burial sites" for Japanese war dead

N. Korea discloses "new burial sites" for Japanese war dead

Residents in Hamhung, eastern North Korea, dig up a farming field on Nov. 5, 2015, in search of the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II. Kyodo News was given access to the field, one of the two locations that Pyongyang says are newly found burial sites for Japanese war victims. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Remains unearthed at "new burial site" for Japanese war dead

Remains unearthed at "new burial site" for Japanese war dead

People look at the purported remains of Japanese World War II soldiers unearthed from a farming filed in Hamhung, eastern North Korea, on Nov. 5, 2015. Kyodo News was given access to the field, one of the two locations that Pyongyang says are newly found burial sites for Japanese nationals who died around the end of the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo