During the period of 1959 to 1984, North Korean false propaganda led over 90,000 ethnic Koreans and their families to migrate from Japan to North Korea. Once in North Korea, the migrants suffered severe discrimination and human rights abuses. For decades, there was little prospect of justice for these abuses. In recent years, however, survivors of this migration who escaped North Korea have renewed efforts to gain some type of recognition and compensation. This note reviews three of these attempts: lawsuits in Japanese and South Korean courts, as well as a petition that was brought before the Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission. While each of these avenues has helped bring to light the truth of North Korean deception, more work remains to be done with respect to collecting compensation.

1. Introduction
2. Japanese Litigation
3. Korean Litigation
4. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea
5. Conclusion

• Andrew Wolman(Senior Lecturer at the City Law School of City, University of London. B.A. (Princeton), J.D.(NYU), LL.M.(GWU), Ph.D.(Antwerp))
• Sumiko Miyatsuka(Lecturer, Kokugakuin Tochigi Junior College. B.A.(Ritsumeikan U. Japan), M.A., Ph.D. (Myongji U. Korea))