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The Great Wave is an acute reflection of the fraught relations between Japan and North Korea, says SIMON PARSONS

The Great Wave
National Theatre, London
IN 1987, when a North Korean terrorist was captured after blowing up a South Korean airliner, the first real evidence came to light that numerous Japanese had been abducted by the North Koreans in order to train their agents to pass for Japanese.
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