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 vice-versa). But more importantly, Pyongyang offers them an identity, a heritage, and cultural legitimacy - things that some elements of Japanese society work to deny them.
Vox Borders Episodes:
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 )
