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Harunori Kojima, a former head of the repatriation support office in Japan helped North Korea lure over Koreans living in Japan in the 1950s
Harunori Kojima still remembers the hot tears of joy that warmed his face against the sleet as he watched two Soviet ships set sail in December 1959 from Japan's Niigata port.
Destination: North Korea, which lured nearly 100,000 Koreans from Japan with fantastical propaganda promising returnees a "Paradise on Earth."
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