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Exodus to North Korea - Shadows from Japan's Cold War (Hardcover)
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Exodus to North Korea - Shadows from Japan's Cold War (Hardcover)
Series: Asian Voices
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Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes
readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary
forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000
people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from
1959 onward. Presented to the world as a humanitarian venture and
conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross, the
scheme was actually the result of political intrigues involving the
governments of Japan, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United
States. The great majority of the Koreans who journeyed to North
Korea in fact originated from the southern part of the Korean
peninsula, and many had lived all their lives in Japan. Though most
left willingly, persuaded by propaganda that a bright new life
awaited them in North Korea, the author draws on recently
declassified documents to reveal the covert pressures used to
hasten the departure of this unwelcome ethnic minority. For most,
their new home proved a place of poverty and hardship; for
thousands, it was a place of persecution and death. In
rediscovering their extraordinary personal stories, this book also
casts new light on the politics of the Cold War and on present-day
tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world.
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