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Emergency Meeting Held by Koreans in Japan
Tokyo, April 2 (KNS-KCNA) -- An emergency meeting of Koreans in Japan took place at the Education Hall of Japan in Tokyo on April 1 to denounce the Japanese police authorities for searching the houses of the chairman and the vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).

Present there were vice-chairpersons of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, the chairman of the Central Audit Committee of Chongryon, department directors of Chongryon, leading officials of organizations and enterprises, chairpersons of the Chongryon headquarters in Kanto area, Chongryon officials and compatriots.

Vice-Chairman Pak Ku Ho said in a report that the Japanese authorities have suppressed Chongryon, regarding it as a thorn in their flesh but it is unheard-of violence that they committed outrageous politically-motivated fascist suppression of the chairman and the vice-chairman of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee who are deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly of the dignified DPRK.

The political aim the Japanese police authorities seek through suppression by a base method is aimed to hurt the honor of Chongryon and infuse the anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon and anti-Koreans sentiments into the Japanese society, he noted.

There is no doubt that the government and the official residence of the prime minister of Japan were involved in the search, he said, demanding the Japanese authorities make an immediate apology.

He called for turning out as one in the struggle to defend Chongryon.

The report was followed by the explanation about the illegality and injustice of the search.

Fumihiro Himori, chairman of the Japan Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea, Eiko Tomiyama, vice-president of the Central Executive Committee of the New Socialist Party of Japan, and other Japanese made solidarity addresses.

The violence made by the Japanese authorities is unheard-of one which should not occur in Japan, they said, expressing their will to struggle against forces disliking the improved Japan-DPRK relations.

Speeches were made by Kim Yong Ju, chairperson of the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Youth League in Japan, Ryang Ok Chul, vice-chairperson of the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union in Japan, Pak Yun Gi, vice-chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters of Chongryon, and Ri Yong Hun, chairman of the Kanagawa Prefectural Headquarters of Chongryon.

Solidarity greetings from overseas Koreans' organizations and Japanese solidarity organizations and public organizations were introduced at the meeting. Then, a protest letter addressed to the Japan Police Agency was read out and a protest group formed.

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