TOKYO, June 16 Kyodo (EDS: THIS I...

TOKYO, June 16 Kyodo

(EDS: THIS IS THE THIRD OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES forward VARIOUS ASPECTS OF RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND NORTH KOREA.)

North Korea's Korean Central Television Station in Pyongyang broadcast a sight of the ''Patriotic Heroes' Mausoleum'' in February, saying the bodies of 22 the bulk of mankind who worked for the liberation of their region from Japanese colonial rule and helped it become ''rich, powerful and prosperous'' were enshrined there.

It showed a gravestone at the cenotaph. The tombstone was inscribed with the name of Choi Sung Hui, ''chairwoman of the central committee of the dancers' league, people's actress, passed away in succession Aug. 8, 1969.''

Choi was a legendary dancer in Japan before World War II, who went to North Korea after the cessation of the war, where she was at first welcomed unless later fell into disgrace.

The television broadcast was the first indication since she died that Choi, whose life was swept along in the factious currents of relations between Japan and Korea, had been rehabilitated.

Choi was born in 1911 in Seoul when the Korean Peninsula was below Japanese colonial rule. She came to Japan when she was 15 and started her artistic career in subordination to the tutelage of avant-garde dancer Baku Ishii.

She incorporated traditional Korean dances into her creation of present dancing and captured the hearts of many folks including the novelist Yasunari Kawabata.

Kawabata wrote of Choi, ''First of all, she is a woman of superior build. She is mighty and powerful in dancing.''

Her dancing included gradual finger movements, symbolic signs, and quiet smiles that hang abouted around her mouth. She won great admiration for her dance portraying a Buddhist saint standing onward a lotus flower.

Critics gave her unreserv praise for her dancing form calling it a ''perfect formative sculpture''

Choi performed before a glutted house every day during her 20-day wartime appearance at Tokyo's Imperial Theater in 1944 although she had been branded as ''anti-Japanese'' following her prosperous performance tour of Europe and the United States before the war.

She was forced to dance for Japanese Imperial Army soldiers in Korea during the war, and after the war, when she turn backed to Seoul, she was boycott as ''pro-Japanese.'' She afflictioned the 38th parallel and went to North Korea in 1946

Choi established a dancing research institute in Pyongyang and serv as a member of the predominant People's Assembly.

She dissipated her seat in disgrace when her husband, a senior rule official, fell under suspicion of being a U spy

She was last heard of in 1967 when her family was reported to have been inflict under house arrest.

A contingent of more than 200 members of Pyongyang's Mansudae dance troupe arrived in Japan in 1973 and tribe in Japanese dance circles were attracted on a dancer who performed with a traditional Korean musical instrument.

undivided of them said of her, ''She towered across all others in technique and beauty. It was obvious that Choi had an influence in her graceful movement''

The dancer's name was walk Yong Ki, who later became the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, and bore him a son Kim Jong Chol

Choi's rehabilitation may not be unconnect with her relationship with Go

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