Leaders en route for U.S.-North Korea summit meeting

On Wednesday, Kim Jong-un and President Trump are to meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, to discuss the North’s nuclear arsenal. The two leaders might also declare an end to the Korean War, which was technically only paused, according to South Korean officials. Seoul has long pushed for the peace declaration as a way to incentivize the North to give up its nuclear weapons.

The meeting holds special significance for the vast Korean diaspora in Japan, who arrived during the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula. Many of these people, known as Zainichi, have family members isolated in the North.

History: In the late 1950s, Tokyo worked to repatriate Koreans who had moved or were forcibly taken to Japan to work during World War II.