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Sung Kook`s Challenges – A Far Journey
On December 14, 1959, a so-called “Repatriation Ship” set sail from North Niigata in Japan and headed for North Korea. A massive propaganda campaign had, for months, been touting a “Socialist Paradise on Earth,” and this ship was carrying the first of the 93,000 ethnic Korean residents of Japan and Japanese spouses in search of their dreams, their hopes, and even their misgivings about the unknown country where they planned to make their new home. Included among that number were 6,730 Japanese spouses and children.