Korea&#39;s tortured reckoning with collaborators
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It has only just begun and already South Korea&#39;s program of historical reckoning of the often brutal Japanese occupation and colonization has produced its first victim. With no small amount of irony, it was the chairman of the governing ...
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As talks with North Korea progress, families fear Japanese citizens snatched 30 years ago are forgotten
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The beheading of a Japanese hostage in Iraq renewed pressure on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to withdraw his country&#39;s troops, as the opposition blamed his pro-US policy for the slaying.
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North Korea says last week&#39;s massive explosion in a remote area of the country&#39;s north was the result of deliberate demolition work.
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The Bush administration took pains Wednesday to portray as mutually advantageous the impending turnover to the South Koreans of wartime operational control of their country's armed forces.
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The families of Japanese kidnapped  decades ago by North Korean agents lashed out at the secretive  communist state on Monday, saying it had lied about the fate of  their loved ones.
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea  has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its  nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia,  saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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Zhou Fenying is a living witness  to the dark history that still poisons China&#39;s relations with  Japan more than 60 years after World War Two.
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The fate of 29 North Koreans remains unclear after they penetrated a Japanese school in Beijing Wednesday. Japanese officials on Thursday indicated they might help the asylum seekers go to a third country.
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Pyongyang&#39;s growing suspicion of external aid shows it is retreating further into its shell despite growing pressure to open up.
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Japan grappled Wednesday with the fallout from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a Tokyo war shrine, as diplomats reportedly worked to mend frayed ties with China and South Korea.
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The Democratic People&#39;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday accused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of taking an unjust attitude toward the nuclear issues of the Korean Peninsula.
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Japan will make a &quot;strong protest&quot; to North Korea after the communist state fabricated all its evidence about the fate of Japanese whom it kidnapped during the Cold War, victims&#39; relatives said yesterday.
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Chile&#39;s government said that tens of thousands of people were tortured during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and that the victims will receive reparations.
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North Korea has denounced as &quot;wicked terrorists&quot; the South Korean officials who orchestrated last month&#39;s airlift to Seoul of 468 North Korean defectors.
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Recorded screams echo through the basement of Seodaemun prison, where bloodied mannequins portray the "patriotic fighters" &#151; Koreans tortured for resisting Japan's 35-year colonial rule.
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Many North Korean refugees who escape to South Korea were repeatedly tortured in their homeland and need special help to adjust to their new country, a United Nations rights envoy said Thursday.