Amended at 22:45 KST to include an updated comment from Japan’s foreign ministry

Only one Japanese “remainder” now survives in North Korea, the Choson Sinbo, a Tokyo-based pro-Pyongyang newspaper, reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper, which is the official mouthpiece of the pro-North Korean Chongryon group but does not represent the view of the North Korean government, said that of all the Japanese citizens left in the North after World War Two, only one is alive.

Japan and North Korea agreed to conduct a “comprehensive and full-scale investigation” on Japanese nationals in the North at the Japan-North Korea