{"id":37994,"date":"2021-10-14T18:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/14\/defectors-tell-court-promised-paradise-on-earth-north-korea"},"modified":"2021-10-14T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:02:01","slug":"defectors-tell-court-they-were-promised-paradise-on-earth-in-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37994","title":{"rendered":"Defectors tell court they were promised \u2018paradise on Earth\u2019 in North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people seeking compensation say they were lured to country and then denied basic human rights<\/p>\n<p>Five people who say they were lured to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> decades ago as part of a resettlement programme have told a court in Japan they were promised a \u201cparadise on Earth\u201d but were instead denied basic human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs \u2013 four ethnic Korean residents of Japan and a Japanese woman who went to the North with her Korean husband and their daughter \u2013 are seeking 100m yen (\u00a3644,000) in damages from the regime of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/14\/defectors-tell-court-promised-paradise-on-earth-north-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people seeking compensation say they were lured to country and then denied basic human rightsFive people who say they were lured to North Korea decades ago as part of a resettlement programme have told a court in Japan they were promised a \u201cparadi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37994\/revisions\/37995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}