Humanitarian Disaster under Humanitarianism: “Repatriation” of Koreans in Japan to North Korea and Its Root Cause

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The repatriation of Koreans in Japan to North Korea mainly in the 1960’s is one of the most extraordinary types of international migration over century. This is because they migrated from one of developed countries to one of the most oppressive nations in the world. The point here is that they were not at all forced to return, but rather volunteered to go to North Korea. However, even though this migration phenomenon is defined as “return migration”, careful analysis shows that many returnees were born in Japan and have no connection with the North Korea region. The North Korean government used this migration from Japan to show the supremacy of their regime compared to South Korea when the both countries were in deep confrontation. The North Korean government engaged in massive propaganda campaign to boost the number of returnees, but, its influence against Koreans in Japan is rather limited. What made this massive migration possible was Japanese mainstream media’s very much proactive depiction of North Korea and full support to the repatriation movement. This strong cooperation is not only rooted in their illusion of the socialism of the day, but also “hidden logic of exclusion” of non-ethnic Japanese in the post-war period in Japan.

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