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Academic seminar slams Japan's debasement of name of DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- An academic seminar took place at the Grand People's Study House on June 5 to denounce Japan's debasement of the name of the DPRK. Present at the seminar were officials concerned, members of the linguistic society of the DPRK, researchers in the field of social sciences, university teachers and researchers in Pyongyang.
    Recalling that Japanese right-wing political figures and mass media do not bother to defamatorily call the DPRK "Hokusen," speakers bitterly dismissed this as an unpardonable insult to the Korean nation, an encroachment upon the sovereign right of the state and part of the moves against reunification and for continued division perpetrated by them to realize their ambition to reinvade Korea.
    They cited concrete historical facts to prove that "Korea" is well known at home and abroad as a symbol of our country and nation along with its history spanning 5,000 years.
    "Hokusen" on the lips of the Japanese reactionaries is the vulgar name crafted and used by the Japanese imperialists in the past to mean part of Northern Korea from the standpoint of a colonial ruler, they said, and added:
    The Japanese reactionaries are so shameless to claim that they call the DPRK so because there is no diplomatic relations between Japan and the DPRK and this is done according to usual practice and this, therefore, does not pose any problem. If a country's name can be improperly called according to usual practice because of the absence of diplomatic relations, Japan should have been called "woe."
    The more undisguised the Japanese reactionaries become in their moves to debase the DPRK, the bitterer national wrath of Koreans they will touch off. In view of these moves they vowed to intensify the probe into Japan's deliberate misuse of the name of the DPRK for a long period and carry on the vigorous struggle against the Japanese reactionaries' debasement of the name of the DPRK.