Kim Jong-un has been ordered to cough up hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages in a case by North Korean defectors in Japan who say they were deceived by repatriation promises of Pyongyang, described as “paradise on Earth.”
The leader of the isolated nation was symbolically called to attend a Tokyo court on Thursday over a resettlement scheme that saw over 90,000 people relocate from Japan to North Korea between 1959 and 1984 in what the plaintiffs consider to be “state kidnapping.”
The group have accused North Korea of deceiving relocators “by false advertising” for a place where “the enjoyment of human rights was generally impossible.”
Hundreds of thousands of Koreans initially came to Japan during Tokyo’s colonization of the Korean peninsula, largely by force, to work as laborers in mines and factories. However, after the bloody Korean war (1950-53), Pyongyang launched a scheme to bring its overseas population home to account for the number of workers killed.
The Japanese government was also in favor of the program at the time, hailing it as a way to help Koreans struggling to settle in Japan, and helped arrange for people to migrate to the North.
Reeled in with promises of free health care, education, and jobs in a place selling the dream of a “paradise on earth,” five people affected by the repatriation scheme who later defected from Pyongyang are demanding 100 million yen ($880,000) each in compensation from Kim Jong-un.
Speaking at a briefing last month, Kenji Fukuda, the lawyer representing the defectors, said that they don’t expect North Korea will pay the damages, but he hopes it could pave a way for the Japanese government to negotiate with the state and normalize diplomatic relations.
He also said that there is “hope this case will bring political pressure to bear and force Pyongyang to permit those who are still in the North to leave.”
If you like this story, share it with a friend!
source: RT
Împotriva articolelor redacției noastre, persoanele nemulțumite pot formula Contestație în termen de 10 zile de la publicarea articolului, la judecătoria Orășenească nr. 1 München Bayern Deutschland, in conformitate cu Legea federală Germană. Considerăm că nu se pot formula acțiuni la instanțele din România deoarece nici o persoană care activează în trustul nostru nu poate fi extrasă de sub jurisdicția federală germană. Considerăm că redacția noastră nu răspunde în fața autorităților din România ci doar celor federale sau civile germane. deoarece legea română nu are efecte de extraneitate asupra redacției chiar dacă subiectul știrilor face obiectul unor evenimente sau persoane din România și sunt scrise în limba română. Limba română nu este izvor de extraneitate a legii.
absolvent WEB DESIGN Academia Britanică de Comunicare Iasi - absolvent COMUNICARE IN AFACERI Academia Britanica de Afaceri si Comunicare -absolvent JURNALISM EDITORIAL - London School University - 2019 inscris la echivalare diploma la Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara - absolvent studii de Drept Universitatea Europeană Drăgan, cursuri in Drept la Universitatea de Vest Timisoara, absolvent studii de proiectare, pastor coordonator in Biserica Protestanta Evanghelica,
Android Developer pe Google Play și plugin developer la Oxwall, creator de teme Wordpress și Oxwall, operator Wordpress, Drupal, Oxwall, Osclass, Moodle, tehnologii HTML și PHP
Authorities attempt to cut off Bitcoin donations to anti-vaccine mandate demonstrators The authorities in Canada have told cryptocurrency exchanges to cease transactions with addresses they said were linked to the ongoing ‘Freedom Convoy’ by the anti-vaccine mandate truckers. The order from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) began circulating on social media early on Wednesday, […]
Severe weather and storm surge warnings are still in effect, while some parts of Hamburg are now underwater In the early hours of Thursday morning, Storm Ylenia hit northern Germany, bringing with it wind speeds of up to 152 kilometers per hour (94mph), according to the German Meteorological Service (DWD). German authorities warned people not […]
Conservative minister Lord Theodore Agnew quit suddenly on Monday, citing the government’s “lamentable” handling of Covid-19 loan fraud Lord Theodore Agnew, who has served as UK minister for efficiency and transformation in the Treasury and Cabinet Office since February of last year, announced his resignation in the House of Lords on Monday. Agnew criticized particular […]
