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Terrorism against Chongryon Organization under Fire

KCNA

    Tokyo, July 30 (KNS-KCNA) -- Nam Sung U, vice-chairman of the central standing committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), held a press conference on July 30 as regards the recurrence of a hostile provocation against Chongryon in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. According to a statement of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee issued at the press conference, on the night of July 29 a shot was fired at the Niigata Prefectural Headquarters of Chongryon, explosive was found at the building of the Niigata branch of the Hana Credit Association, causing residents around it to take refugee and a certain man named "kiyugun kenkoku" telephoned a Japanese newspaper office that he fired at the Niigata Prefectural Headquarters of Chongryon and installed explosive at the credit association of the Korean bank.
    The statement said:
    The recent incident was a hostile provocation to Chongryon and unpardonable terrorism threatening the life and property of Koreans in Japan. It was a carefully pre-arranged extremely disturbing incident as it took place at a time when slanders and abuses against the DPRK, Chongryon and violence against Koreans in Japan have been unabated since September last year.
    Chongryon bitterly denounces with the surging national resentment the recent terrorism intended to directly threaten the life and property of Koreans in Japan, create prejudice and antipathy toward Chongryon and Koreans in Japan in the Japanese society and bedevil the DPRK-Japan friendship.
    We cannot but take a serious note of the fact that enmity towards Koreans is being carried into extremes in Japan due to the unceasing smear campaign against the DPRK and Chongryon quite contrary to the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.
    We strongly demand the Japanese authorities probe as soon as possible the truth behind a series of firing and bomb threat incidents including firing at the Niigata Prefectural Headquarters of Chongryon and threat to explode explosive at the Niigata branch of the Hana Credit Association and take responsible measures to prevent the recurrence of similar cases.