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'Paradise on Earth': Ghosts of N.Korea propaganda still haunts

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Between 1959 and 1984, tens of thousands of Koreans and their Japanese spouses moved to North Korea from Japan with North's fantastical propaganda promising returning kin a "Paradise on Earth." But the reality they faced on arrival was a far cry from the propaganda.

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