Red Cross officials from Japan and North Korea are meeting in Beijing to discuss the possible repatriation of Japanese who died in the North at the end of World War ll
The first discussion between the two Red Cross societies in a decade began on August 9. Japan says about 43,600 soldiers and civilians died in North Korea in the chaos following the end of the war in 1945.Only the remains of about 13,00 have been
repatriated