TOKYO: A Japanese man released by North Korea after being accused of a crime arrived in Beijing from Pyongyang on Tuesday and is expected to return home, reports said.
Tomoyuki Sugimoto (pic) had been in North Korean custody for an investigation into the unspecified crime, but the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said on Sunday the country decided to be lenient and expel him for humanitarian reasons.
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