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Korean People to Force Japan to Pay Dearly for All Its Crimes

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- Unprecedentedly savage suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and Koreans in Japan is reported from Japan, timed to coincide with the frantic anti-DPRK racket under the pretext of its "nuclear and abduction issues". Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today terms such terrorism against Chongryon organizations and Koreans in Japan a concentric expression of the hostile policy toward the DPRK undisguisedly pursued at the tacit connivance of the Japanese government and under its patronage.
    It goes on:
    The Japanese reactionaries are these days escalating their anti-DPRK smear campaign over the "nuclear and abduction issues" of the DPRK. Through this intensified suppression and terrorism against Chongryon organizations and Koreans in Japan they seek to wrest a sort of concession from the DPRK and attain their sinister political and military purposes.
    Chongryon is an inviolable overseas citizens' organization and a legitimate organization of the DPRK. Moreover, it has performed the mission and role as a diplomatic mission for friendship with Japanese people in the absence of the diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan.
    It is quite natural for the army and people of the DPRK to call for strongly reacting against the reckless suppression and terrorism of the Japanese right-wing gangsters against Chongryon and Koreans in Japan, considering them as deliberate political and military provocations of the Japanese government to the DPRK.
    There exists long-standing confrontational sentiment between the two countries. The Japanese government's hostile policy toward the DPRK and Chongryon is little short of adding to the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people in the past. It only stirs up the bitterness of the army and people of the DPRK towards Japan.
    The DPRK can never allow any slightest compromise and concession on the encroachment upon the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country. It will take only a powerful self-defensive step against the violation.
    The Korean people will certainly force Japan to pay dearly for its double and treble crimes.