Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War

by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Book Overview

Ranging 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. Presented to the world as a humanitarian venture and conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross, the scheme was actually the result of political intrigues involving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742554414
• ISBN13: 9780742554412
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"