Why North Korea has children’s schools in Japan
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For this episode I found myself embeded with a small community in Japan. They were born there, they speak the language. But they're not Japanese citizens, or even ethnically Japanese they're North Korean. There's about 150,000 of them living in Japan today, and they've been there for over a century.

This community has close ties with the regime in Pyongyang, which supports them financially (and viceversa). But more importantly, Pyongyang offers them an identity, a heritage, and cultural legitimacy things that some elements of Japanese society work to deny them.

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1. Haiti and the Dominican Republic (    • Divided island: How Haiti and the DR ...  )
2. The Arctic & Russia (   • It's time to draw borders on the Arct...  )
3. Japan & North Korea (   • Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan  )