Right to National Education by Koreans in Japan Is Legitimate and Inviolable: Spokesman for Democratic Lawyers Association of Korea

Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Democratic Lawyers Association of Korea released a press statement Monday, revealing and denouncing the unethical crimes committed by the Japanese authorities aimed at eliminating the national education of Koreans in Japan.

The fascist suppression of the national education of Koreans in Japan by the Japanese reactionaries was an illegal violence and outrageous challenge in contravention of international law and human ethics from A to Z, the press statement said, and went on:

Now the April 24 education struggle was an event in the past but the Japanese reactionaries steeped in morbid repugnancy and inveterate hostility against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) still engage in craftier and dirtier ways to eliminate the national education of Koreans in Japan.

Unethical crimes against Korean schools and children of Koreans in Japan are unabated at the tacit connivance of the Japanese authorities, and such "written sentences" fraught with national chauvinist ideas as "shutdown ordinance" are still sent to Chongryon schools at all levels nonstop.

The right to national education of Koreans in Japan is a legitimate and inalienable right specified even in international law including the UN convention on children's rights and the UNESCO convention on opposition of discrimination against education as well as basic law of Japan on education.

No matter how tricky the Japanese authorities may become to justify their moves on the international arena to eliminate national education of Koreans in Japan, can they never deny nor conceal the past and on-going unethical crimes against the Korean schools and Korean children.

The Koreans in Japan are under the strong protection of the law of the DPRK on defending the rights and interests of overseas Koreans.

The violation of the democratic national rights and interests of Koreans in Japan precisely means the violation of the sovereignty and national right of the dignified DPRK.

The DPRK already sounded a warning alarm to those countries that took the advantage of the U.S. alliance strategy and began to get inveigled in the act of depriving the DPRK of its sacred dignity and sovereignty.

The Japanese authorities will certainly get a big deal if they persist in the unethical crimes of eliminating the national education of Koreans in Japan while making mockery of international law and human rights, in defiance of our repeated warnings and the strong denunciation and rejection by the international community.

The Japanese authorities must face up to the trend of the times and stop at once the crackdown of the democratic national education of Chongryon, before it is too late. -0-

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