A group of 16 Japanese women married to North Koreans arrived at Narita Airport on Tuesday for the third homecoming trip arranged between the two countries.
The women arrived via Beijing and are to stay in Japan until Monday. During their trip, which was organized by the Red Cross societies of the two nations, the women will meet relatives in Japan and visit family graves.
The homecoming comes on the heels of the resumption in April of bilateral normalization talks following a seven-year lull. The visits, which took place in 1997 and early 1998, were suspended after North Korea launched what Japan maintains was a missile over its airspace in August 1998.