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That was in the 1970s

Kim Il-Sung and the Japanese govt at the time w/ the assistance of the Japanese Red Cross facilitated the “return” of almost 100k zainichi to North Korea. Kim later admitted that the North Korean govt kidnapped Japanese people off of beaches

I didn’t know that Japan annexed and ruled Korea as a colony from 1910 to 1945. The colony was called “Chōsen”/Joseon

zainichi (ethnically Korean people living in Japan)