TY - BOOK ID - 135587080 TI - Exodus to North Korea PY - 2007 SN - 0742554414 0742579387 9780742579385 9780742554412 0742554422 9780742554429 PB - Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Return migration KW - Repatriation KW - Koreans KW - Cold War. KW - History. KW - Korea (North) KW - Japan KW - Foreign relations KW - Cold War KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135587080 AB - Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the ""return"" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. For most, their new home proved a place of poverty and hardship; for thousands, it was a place of persecution and death. In rediscovering their extraordinary personal stories, this book also casts new light on the politics of the Cold War, and on present-day tensions between North Korea and the rest ER -