Japanese women married to North Korean men ... may be able to visit their home country. Red Cross officials of North Korea and Japan said Tuesday they will arrange for the Japanese women to travel to their homeland this summer. It will be the first such visit in two years. The announcement came at the end of two days of talks in Beijing. Japan and North Korea have no diplomatic ties. About two thousand Japanese ... most of them women married to North Koreans ... live in North Korea and were not allowed to visit Japan for decades.