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and resulting persecution of Korean intellectuals caused them to flee to North Korea. North Korean government had to establish two or three refugee camps for the large numbers of Chinese-Korean refugees fleeing China. Since the 1960s, there have been schools for the Chinese-Koreans, but very little
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Japanese-Koreans are descendants of people who were repatriated from Japan between 1959 and 1980. There were around 94,000 people who moved to North Korea. As of 2013 their current number is between 100,000 and 150,000. They were isolated from mainstream society in North Korea. However, they were
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The community of Koreans in China grew in the late 19th century. In 1945, there were up to two million ethnic Koreans living in China. In the late 1950s and 1960s, tens of thousands of ethnic Koreans moved to North Korea. Between 50,000 and 70,000 people are believed to have moved to North Korea.
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There are very few rights to the religious minority in North Korea because they usually don't know about these people as they are a very small group of the huge population. Many people there live under the radar and hide their ethnicity.
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A number of communities consist of ethnic Koreans who have repatriated to the Korean peninsula. Some 50,000 to 70,000 ethnic Koreans living in China migrated to North Korea in the wake of the famine following
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Less than 10,000 Russian-Korean people moved to North Korea, although the Soviet Union had one of the largest Korean minorities in the world. Most of the repatriates to North Korea came from island of
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in North Korea. Their repatriation took place between 1959 and 1980. During the 1960s and 1970s they maintained affluence from their Japanese stay, but their wealth was consumed by the
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to construct refugee camps to house the immigrants. Between 100,000 and 150,000 ethnic Koreans formerly living in Japan, and their descendants, form the community of repatriated
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resulted in economic troubles and famine. In comparison, North Korean economy of that time did well. While the emigration was legal at first, it was banned after 1958. The
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where they had moved during Japanese colonization of Korea. The Russian-Koreans have mainly assimilated, and do not form a separate ethnic group in modern North Korea.
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more affluent than typical North Koreans in the 1960s and 1970s. The Japanese-Koreans are known from anecdotal evidence to have mainly married among themselves. After
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Their villages existed in North Korea, from the 18th century when their descendants migrated from China, until the 1960s. In modern times, Jaegaseung people have been
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of the 1990s. Their communities remain tight, with marriages mostly from within the group, and separate from the rest of the North Korean society. The
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North Korean official proportions of religious adherents. North Korea has claimed that there are only 64,000 religious people living in the country.
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North Korea has no clear religious majority. It has been suggested that North Korea is mostly irreligious. However, the figures are unreliable.
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and the Jaegaseung people were assimilated with the Korean people. There is also a community of ethnic Chinese people, known as
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used to inhabit villages of their own, under lay monastic orders, until the 1960s. These monastic communities were perceived as
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the community has lost much of its affluence but it still exists as a separate group within North Korean society.
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community in North Korea. In 1997 a small number of ethnically Japanese wives were allowed to return to Japan.
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descendants who live in Korea. Historically, they formed villages of married lay monks. They produced
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Culture and customs of the mountain villages (lay monk villages) in far northern Hamgyong province
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is allowed to exist so that the regime is able to claim it represents ideals of the 19th century
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Religious Intelligence UK has tried to make an unofficial estimate of religious demographics.
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However, no official published statistics exist to confirm the numbers. In the late 1950s the
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Tertitskiy, Fyodor (2015). "Exclusion as a Privilege: The Chinese Diaspora in North Korea".
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Practicing religion is allowed by the government, but it is mandated to serve the official
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and substituted their tax with it. These local communities survived through the
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Hamgyŏng pukto pukpu san'gan purak (chaegasŭng purak) ŭi munhwa wa p'ungsŭp
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There is a dwindling community of Chinese people, known locally as
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are also portrayed as the embodiment of the 19th century
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is a well-known member of Japanese-Korean minority.
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Index


Buddhism
North Korea
Koreans
China
Japan
Jaegaseung
Jurchen people
antisocialist
Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
Zainichi Koreans
Japanese Red Army
Japanese people abducted by North Korea
Americans in North Korea
Chondoists
Buddhists
Christians
Chondoist
Donghak Peasant Revolution
Chondoist Chongu Party
Workers' Party of Korea
Mao Zedong
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
North Korean government
Zainichi Koreans
North Korean famine
Soviet Union
one of the largest Korean minorities abroad

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