Japan: Protect Victims Enticed to North Korea

Expand Five plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against North Korea for the “Paradise on Earth” campaign hold a banner, accompanied by their supporters, in Tokyo, August 19, 2018. © 2018 Kanae Doi/Human Rights Watch (Tokyo) – Japan should publicly urge the North Korean government to immediately allow ethnic Koreans lured to North Korea from Japan and their relatives to return to Japan, Human Rights Watch said today. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should follow up this demand with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, in any possible future summit. Five victims of the “Paradise on Earth” campaign, which…

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