TOKYO, March 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has been joined by activists around the world in its recent public campaign against China's forced repatriation of North Korean defectors, but those who have resettled in Japan continue to face difficulties, defectors and activists said Monday.

About 200 North Korean defectors currently live in Japan, with about 150 in Tokyo and the rest in Osaka, according to activists here. These defectors were mostly born in Japan during Tokyo's 1910-1945 colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula and moved to North Korea between the 1950s and 1980s, lured by the communist nation's so-called "Paradise on Earth" campaign, which promised free education and health care benefits.