UK KFA STATMENT ON THE SUPPRESSION OF CHONGRYON

UK KFA STATMENT ON THE SUPPRESSION OF CHONGRYON
Noting that the situation of CHONGRYON-the General Association of Korean
Residents in Japan has now reached the danger point the Korean Friendship
Association of the UK today(14th of July) issues the following statement.

At present in Japan the suppression moves of the Abe group against Chongryon (the
General Association of Korean Residents in Japan ) and the Korean nationals are
getting more frantically in a very wicked, cruel and wide-scope way, drawing the
bitter rage and denunciation from the world peace-loving people as well as the
Korean nation.

The Abe group is running amuck in applying sanctions against the DPRK, committing
the political suppression and national persecution against Chongryon and the Korean
nationals in Japan by mobilizing all of the state institutions, security
authorities, rightwing media,facist hooligans and gangsters .

The Abe group committed barbarian outrages of forced investigation, violence and
arrest of the Chongryon facilities and the Korean nationals last year and this year
by mobilizing many armed policemen and armored vehicles, and not content with it, it
is now hell-bent to dispose of the plottage and the hall of Chongryon Headquarters
in a forced way through the Japanese Resolution and Collection Corporation.

The madcap hostile acts now being conducted throughout Japan against Chongryon and
the Korean nationals just remind of the brutal crimes committed in and outside of
Korea before its liberation against the Korean nation.

These acts of Japan are aimed at terminating the patriotic movement of Koreans in
Japan and an intolerable provocation to the DPRK and Chongryon, the DPRK s dignified
organization of overseas Koreans, and a grave infringement upon their sovereignty.

Chongryon is a lawful overseas organization of the DPRK, formed to defend the
national and democratic rights of Korean nationals in Japan .Many countries
have ethnnic community groups and associations.In the UK there are many associations
and groups run by ethnic minorities which have their own
premises.

Japan in suppressing CHONGRYON is simply showing to the world the deeply racist
nature of its society which it tried to cover up.

Japan makes a great deal about the so called abduction issue but it has itself
adbucted DPRK citizens.

 We vehemently condemn and denounce the ignoble suppression and burglarious
outrages committed by the Abe group against Chongryon and the Korean nationals in
Japan .

Lurking behind the suppression campaign of the Abe group against the DPRK, Chongryon
and the Korean nationals in Japan are its sinister purpose to evade the legal and
moral responsibility on the historical crimes perpetuated against the Koreans in
Japan and all the Koreans in the past, and a despicable political aim to create a
hard-line conservative atmosphere within the Japanese society so as to gain the
stable votes needed for maintaining the government in the upcoming election of the
House of Councilors slated for late July.

All facts are enough to prove that the Abe group is a political cabal which
mercilessly stamps on the elementary national democratic rights and the right to
live of the foreign residents in Japan only for gratifying its political dreams.

The Abe group and the Japanese authorities should stop at once the suppression moves
against Chongryon, mindful of the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its
reckless suppression of Chongryon and guarantee the righteous activities of
Chongryon and the stability of living for the Korean nationals in accordance with
the spirit and principles of the DPRK-Japanese Pyongyang Declaration.

UK KFA calls on its members and friends to do all they can to organise protests
against Japan.