Minju Joson Saturday says this in a signed commentary. It goes on:

The Japanese government is duty-bound under international law to ensure the right of the Korean schools in Japan to education.

Any overseas citizen of a sovereign state has the right to be protected by law in any country and it is the principled requirement of international law and relations to guarantee him or her such right. The Korean schools in Japan are legitimate national education institutions under the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), a dignified overseas citizens' organization of the DPRK. Therefore, they have an equal right to education with Japanese schools and it is natural for the Japanese government to ensure them the right to education.

The students who are studying at the Korean schools in Japan are the descendants of those Koreans who were forcibly taken to Japan by the Japanese imperialists in the past. So the Japanese government is under moral obligation to ensure them the right to education.

The Japanese reactionaries, however, are leaving no means untried to exclude the Korean schools from the program at any cost. Lurking behind this is the sinister intention of the Japanese reactionaries to impose heavy financial burden on the Korean schools in a bid to stamp out national education, the most important lifeline of Chongryon, and escalate their moves against Chongryon and the DPRK.

Intolerable is such act of violating independent rights of citizens of other nation and country in breach of universally recognized norms of international law.

The Japanese government should squarely face up to the reality and fairly solve the issue of excluding the Korean schools in Japan from the tuition-free program.

The Japanese reactionaries' persistent acts of institutionally and administratively discriminating against the Koreans in Japan to suppress them while restricting and violating their democratic national rights will invite bitterer international shame and criticism, the commentary warns.