Police on Monday searched the Tokyo office of a Korean residents' group, a hospital and other locations on suspicion of involvement in illegal transactions of intravenous solutions intended for North Korea, law enforcers said. The searched locations include the Tokyo branch of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, in Bunkyo-ku, and the Niigata office of the group. Tokyo police suspect that the director of an ear, nose and throat hospital in Tokyo's Setagaya-ku handed over 60 bags of intravenous solution without authorization to a 74-year-old North Korean woman at her request in May this year. The...
