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TOKYO: North Korean defectors in Tokyo symbolically summoned Kim Jong Un to court on Thursday over a repatriation programme they described as “state kidnapping”. The unusual case is a bid to hold Pyongyang responsible for a scheme that saw more than 90,000 people move to North Korea from Japan between 1959 and 1984. The programme mainly targeted ethnic Koreans but …

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