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Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan

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Why North Korea has children’s schools in Japan Follow Johnny to stay up to date on Vox Borders: Instagram:   / johnnywharris   Facebook:   / johnnyharrisvox   My dispatch about Japan's rising right-wing nationalism:    • Japan's rising right-wing nationalism   Original Music by Rare Henderson: https://www.rarehenderson.com/audio Vox Borders Episodes: 1. Haiti and the Dominican Republic (    • Divided island: How Haiti and the DR ...  ) 2. The Arctic & Russia (   • It's time to draw borders on the Arct...  ) 3. Japan & North Korea (   • Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan  ) 4. Mexico & Guatemala (   • How the US outsourced border security...  ) 5. Nepal & The Himalaya (   • Building a border at 4,600 meters  ) 6. Spain & Morocco (   • Europe’s most fortified border is in ...  ) For this episode I found myself embeded with a small community in Japan. They were born there, they speak the language. But they're not Japanese citizens, or even e …...more
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Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan
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2017Oct 31
Why North Korea has children’s schools in Japan Follow Johnny to stay up to date on Vox Borders: Instagram:   / johnnywharris   Facebook:   / johnnyharrisvox   My dispatch about Japan's rising right-wing nationalism:    • Japan's rising right-wing nationalism   Original Music by Rare Henderson: https://www.rarehenderson.com/audio Vox Borders Episodes: 1. Haiti and the Dominican Republic (    • Divided island: How Haiti and the DR ...  ) 2. The Arctic & Russia (   • It's time to draw borders on the Arct...  ) 3. Japan & North Korea (   • Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan  ) 4. Mexico & Guatemala (   • How the US outsourced border security...  ) 5. Nepal & The Himalaya (   • Building a border at 4,600 meters  ) 6. Spain & Morocco (   • Europe’s most fortified border is in ...  ) For this episode I found myself embeded with a small community in Japan. They were born there, they speak the language. But they're not Japanese citizens, or even ethnically Japanese - they're North Korean. There's about 150,000 of them living in Japan today, and they've been there for over a century. This community has close ties with the regime in Pyongyang, which supports them financially (and vice-versa). But more importantly, Pyongyang offers them an identity, a heritage, and cultural legitimacy - things that some elements of Japanese society work to deny them. Vox Borders Episodes: 1. Haiti and the Dominican Republic (    • Divided island: How Haiti and the DR ...  ) 2. The Arctic & Russia (   • It's time to draw borders on the Arct...  ) 3. Japan & North Korea (   • Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan  )

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