North Korea in 1960, now the old man left the ship of the Soviet union, Japan, he thought he was on the way to the Promised Land. In reality, his survival for 47 years, thanks to support his half-brother of only $1 million in Japan.
The man's parents decided to move to north Korea South Korea was born, he is a teenage commitments under the temptation of free education and free medical care, it was after the Korean war from 1950 to 1953, more than South Korea.
In Japan, the Korean society of 35 years of colonial rule in Tokyo on the Korean peninsula, at the end of world war ii, Japan's defeat of forced labor in the country's descendants.
Is the fate, the man fled back to Japan in 2008 and now supports his wife and children in the north. With other remittances to north, from South Korea, Japan or Korea, he might have been more strict censorship, new u.n. sanctions on Pyongyang's third nuclear test after 2 months of trading.
Reuters reported that an interview with reporters in Tokyo, 66 - year - old man who asked to remain anonymous, for fear of retaliation in his family. He declined to say why he fled north Korea. He fled China in 2007, and arrived in Japan the following year.
He remember to call him by his half-brother, a few years ago, when he was in north Korea, thank him for his money.
"I told my brother, I'm so sorry (money), but he said that we have from the same mother's stomach... I really cry, I am very grateful to him," said the man. His half-brother's younger brother was dead when he arrived in Tokyo.
Even before the February 12 test, Japan's finance ministry seems to pay more attention to north Korea, because the man discovered, when he tried to send the 200000 yen ($2100) to Pyongyang via the postal system, north Korea's latest long, December launch of a long-range rocket.
Two days later, he applied for the ministry wrote him a letter and asked him why he want to send money.
"There is a gap at the bottom of the detailed reason of the remittance, so I wrote:" this isn't political capital for Kim jong UN, but my poor starving family life "."
The man said, the ministry didn't get in touch again, therefore, he thought that money to send. In Japan the post office to conduct banking business, such as to foreign remittance.
Japan will be stepped up to the remittance?
The latest United Nations sanctions against north Korea's leader Kim jong il's regime to fiscal tightening restrictions, including illegal transfer of large amounts of cash, blow it tried to ban cargo shipping and receiving. March 7 is the purpose of the measures to curb north Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program.
Japan's finance ministry asked 30000 yen in cash transfer report to the authorities the postal remittance more than 100000 yen. For all other countries, for 10 times.
One day in February after a nuclear test, the nikkei newspaper "said that Japan will consider restrictions on transfer and reduce the report to north Korea.
A senior Treasury official told Reuters on Wednesday, has made a remittance rules have not changed. It is not clear why the man have to reveal more details about his transfer, this is far more than 3 million yen.
More than 93000 ethnic koreans from Japan, north Korea in 1959 and 1984's slogan is "let's go back to the motherland!" In Japan, according to researchers.
This number dropped sharply, from the mid - 1980 - s, the north's extreme poverty in the stories. At the same time, South Korea's industrialization is in full swing.
Half-brother of the man's brother, a construction worker, he is a total of 87 million yen ($923400), and he lives in the north, and said to him, he said, adding that one day.
Remittance from Japan is estimated at $20 billion a year, until the early 1990 s, according to the washington-based peterson institute for international economics, a research on north Korea's economy in 2007, a report.
North Korea called the cash flow of the "flow" of Mount Fuji.
In Japan, the Korean can still send money, but it is a trickle compared.
"STREAM" of Mount Fuji has dried up
In Japan's bubble economy burst in the early 1990 s, the hurt north koreans to disposable income. Tokyo, at the same time, crack down on what it says are illegal businessmen pro-pyongyang organization called general confederation of koreans in Japan, or the total group, has handed over money to north Korea for a long time. It denied the accusations.
Still exists in the 1960 s and 70 s, the always connected the isolated north Korea society of Japan, has played an important role.
After north Korea's first nuclear test, Japan, north Korea in 2006 banned most financial transactions. It also closed the ferry services, delivery of the goods and money across the 1000 km (600 miles) of water separated from the two countries.
In the past three years, the finance department recorded close to $20 million in remittances. North Korean defectors living in South Korea's annual flow rate is estimated at $10 million a year, according to researchers in Seoul.
These days, asked passengers from Japan for north Korea to take cash or remittance after the commonly used method. Through China flights, because Japan has no diplomatic relations with north Korea.
The question now is the same, because it is when the man was taken to the relatives of money - if you get all this, it is not clear.
Li Yanghua, professor of economics at kansai university in Osaka, Japan, sending about 200000 yen, a year in the north of the family.
Half to north Korean officials, he argues, is "loyalty to donate" regime. Lee said, he also think that most of the relatives to send money for cash report.
"We've been remittance about fifty years, hope one day north Korea sent to can stand on his own feet," li said.
"But there are still no signs that they can."
Food is also very important
North koreans in despair according to the independent agency, estimates that in the famine of the 1990 s, about 1 million people were killed.
"In the 1990 s, we have to send the goods. If you have money, there are bricks without straw, so we send sesame oil, sugar, rice and noodles and rice cakes, said:" Yang Yongxi, a nation of south Korean filmmaker living in Japan in the 1970 s, his three brothers to go to the north. One is dead, but the other two still live there.
The 66 - year - old
 



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