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KCNA Assails Alarming Anti-Chongryon Campaign

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries' campaign against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) has reached a dangerous phase that one can not overlook. Right-wing gangsters' organized terrorism against Chongryon are becoming unabated as evidenced by cases of shooting and arson attack on its institutions at different levels and violence against students of Korean schools in various parts of Japan.
    Financial suppression of those institutions including the Chongryon Central Headquarters is getting pronounced. There are plots to justify the armed crackdown upon Chongryon by defining it as a target of suppression by the "anti-subversive activities law" and to destabilize and split Chongryon from within and completely destroy it.
    The gravity of these moves is that they are going on at the tacit connivance and instigation of the Japanese government authorities and they are directly involved in them.
    The internal situation in Japan today is reminiscent of that during the great Kanto quake and on the eve of the Korean war in 1950 when Koreans in Japan were brutally suppressed. This is an intolerable insult and grave challenge to the DPRK as it was deliberately created by the Japanese authorities under a prearranged plan.
    Recently they pushed the situation to a dangerous phase under the pretext of the "nuclear issue," etc. This is, in essence, a serious anti-DPRK hostile act committed as part of the sanctions and blockade they are imposing against it, pursuant to the U.S. strategy to pressurize Pyongyang.
    Through this they seek to meet their sinister and selfish aim to step up their moves to turn Japan's domestic politics to the Right and militarize it under the pretext of the "nuclear issue" in a bid to save it from depression and achieve the stability of their ruling system.
    The army and people of the DPRK are blazing with a towering grudge against Japan because of its past history of aggression. They will certainly force the Japanese reactionaries to pay for their moves to suppress and destroy Chongryon, an inviolable organization of overseas citizens of the DPRK.