Victims of North Korean repatriation campaign sue for compensation in ROK court



News Victims of North Korean repatriation campaign sue for compensation in ROK court First ROK lawsuit over case alleges DPRK lured Koreans in Japan with false promises and that Seoul didn’t protect them Lina Park \| Shreyas Reddy March 14, 2024 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON North Korean street sellers in Pyongyang \| Image: Eric Lafforgue (May 2010) A Seoul-based human rights organization is set to sue Pyongyang over a decades-long campaign to lure ethnic Koreans to move to North Korea through false promises, the first-ever South Korean lawsuit over the operation. The lawsuit, to be filed on Friday on behalf of five ethnic Koreans who relocated from Japan to the DPRK, seeks “overdue compensation for atrocities suffered as part of the North Korean government’s deceitful repatriation scheme,” the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) announced in a press release on Wednesday. Under a campaign depicting North Korea as a “Paradise on Earth,” the © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. Get the Daily Update & Podcast Updates Start your day with the North Korea stories that matter most – as selected by Trending

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Victims of North Korean repatriation campaign sue for compensation in ROK court

First ROK lawsuit over case alleges DPRK lured Koreans in Japan with false promises and that Seoul didn’t protect them

Lina Park | Shreyas Reddy March 14, 2024

Victims of North Korean repatriation campaign sue for compensation in ROK court

North Korean street sellers in Pyongyang | Image: Eric Lafforgue (May 2010)

A Seoul-based human rights organization is set to sue Pyongyang over a decades-long campaign to lure ethnic Koreans to move to North Korea through false promises, the first-ever South Korean lawsuit over the operation.

The lawsuit, to be filed on Friday on behalf of five ethnic Koreans who relocated from Japan to the DPRK, seeks “overdue compensation for atrocities suffered as part of the North Korean government’s deceitful repatriation scheme,” the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) announced in a press release on Wednesday.

Under a campaign depicting North Korea as a “Paradise on Earth,” the

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