calendar>>November 9. 2011 Juch 100
Minju Joson Slashes at Japan's Row over Tuition-Waiver Program for Korean Schools

Pyongyang, November 9 (KCNA) -- A ruckus for confrontation with the DPRK has been kicked off in Japan over the issue of the tuition-waiver program for Korean schools. The Japanese right-wing forces are playing a key role in it.

Just before leaving office the Naoto government gave instructions to reexamine the tuition-waiver program for Korean schools. The Japanese right-wing forces made a much fuss about it as if something big had happened.

Minju Joson Wednesday runs a bylined commentary in this regard which says:

The Japanese reactionaries try to put political and economic pressure on the Korean schools while taking issue with the education of Korean students. This is inhumane and unethical violence which can never be justified under any circumstances.

Japan is under moral obligation to apply the tuition-free program for the Korean schools.

The Korean students are descendents of those who survived all kinds of humiliation, maltreatment and contempt after being taken to Japan under the compulsory labor policy of the Japanese imperialists. Japan, therefore, has legal and moral responsibilities to respect and guarantee the Koreans in Japan national and human rights.

Nevertheless, the Japanese right-wing forces try to give impression that tuition-waiver program for Korean students is a kind of "benevolence" for Koreans.

What arouses bitter resentment is that they, obsessed with hostility to the DPRK and national chauvinism, picked a quarrel over the contents of the teaching materials of the Korean schools.

Everyone has the right to freely choose teaching materials according to one's own political belief.

The Japanese right-wing forces' despicable behaviors show that they are descendants of Samurais possessed of the aggressive nature, brutality and chauvinistic disposition of the Japanese imperialists.

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