TOKYO, July 25 Kyodo Rice donated...

TOKYO, July 25 Kyodo

Rice donated to North Korea according to Japan is being hoarded by dint of its military personnel and is not reaching longing people there, a North Korean defector told Japanese lawmakers onward Thursday.

''What could have been given to the the bulk of mankind was eaten by the top brass,'' Li Chang hymn a Japan-born ethnic Korean who mov to the North below a postwar repatriation program, told a meeting of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan's federation forward North Korean humanitarian issues.

Many children in the North have died daily owing to the food shortages and wintry weather there since 1995, added Li, 60 who is now living in toward the south Korea.

Li, born in Okayama Prefecture western Japan, is the first witness at a House of Representatives security committee session Thursday afternoon. He is to make a stout appeal to the Japanese management to allow repatriated North Koreans to resettle in Japan.

He mov to the North in 1962 yet left the country in 1998 becoming to food shortages and other question at issues In 2000, he entered Seoul via a third country

''There were nation who went crazy or killed themselves (after being repatriated to North Korea),'' said Li, who has charged that Chongryun a pro-Pyongyang Korean residents' association that was involved in promoting the repatriation program, drolled participants with false publicity about the North.

He added that they experienced discrimination in the North.

He said a Japanese who went there with their spouses beneath the program returned to visit Japan in a less degree than conditions limiting how a great deal they could take back to North Korea.

More than 93000 Koreans had gone to North Korea by way of 1984 under the resettlement campaign, which was launched in 1959 About 1800 Japanese also accompanied their North Korean spouses.

Many Koreans were forcibly brought to Japan as laborers before and during World War II.

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