Permanent return of Sakhalin Koreans

Permanent return of Sakhalin Koreans

A Korean National Red Cross official (R) helps one of 63 ethnic Koreans residing on Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin move her luggage at the port of Vladivostok on March 16, 2023, ahead of their departure for their motherland for permanent resettlement with the help of the Red Cross. Japan forcibly mobilized about 150,000 Koreans to work in coal mines, pulp mills and military facilities on Sakhalin during World War II, when the southern part of the Russian island was under Japanese control. After the war, however, about 43,000 Korean were stranded, becoming "stateless people." (Yonhap)

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