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Stop to Suppression of Chongryon in Japan Urged

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- It is the unshakable resolution of the army and people of the DPRK to force Japan to pay dearly not only for the hideous crimes it committed in the past but for those being committed these days, warns Minju Joson today in a signed commentary. It says:
    The Japanese reactionaries are now going ahead with unprecedented suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), overseas citizens' organization of the DPRK.
    As far as the Koreans in Japan are concerned, they are either those who were forcibly taken and kidnapped to Japan, an alien land, to undergo all sorts of sufferings in the period of the Japanese imperialist harsh colonial rule over Korea or their descendants. The Japanese government authorities are, therefore, under an obligation to protect them.
    The same is true for Chongryon. As an overseas citizens' organization of the DPRK it has conducted activities to protect national rights, dignity and sovereignty of the Koreans in Japan.
    Moreover, it has performed the mission and role as a diplomatic mission for friendship with the Japanese people in the absence of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan.
    But Japan is persecuting Koreans in Japan after branding Chongryon as an "overseas organization of a hostile state." This is a gross violation of international law and inhuman fascist terrorism.
    The ulterior aim sought by the Japanese reactionaries in their repressive campaign against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan is to realize their criminal intention to stifle the DPRK through the increased pressure upon it.
    If the Japanese government persists in its moves against the DPRK and Chongryon despite their repeated warning, it will be held fully accountable for all the ensuing consequences.