TOKYO, June 12 Kyodo Japan allowe...

TOKYO, June 12 Kyodo

Japan allowed 23 former Korean residents of Japan to resettle in the abiding habitation after they moved to North Korea in a repatriation campaign from 1959 to 1984 a researcher forward Korean affairs said Wednesday.

Speaking before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Katsumi Sato, director of the late Korea Institute, said defectors from North Korea who one time lived in Japan believe Tokyo will give silent approval if they have knowledge of to return to Japan.

Given as it was circumstances, ''It is likely in the near subsequent time that they will swarm to Japan according to ship,'' said Sato who has met any of the 23.

More than 93000 Koreans had gone to North Korea on 1984 under the resettlement campaign, launched in 1959 Many Koreans were forcibly brought to Japan as laborers before and during World War II.

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