Japanese Reactionaries' Anti-DPRK, Anti-Chongryon Moves under Fire

Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Japan made a decision to suspend subsidies to five Korean schools in Kanagawa Prefecture under the pretext that these schools have regular touch with the DPRK and history textbooks at those schools do not reflect what is demanded by the authorities. Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says: If the Japanese authorities have a shred of conscience, they should guarantee Korean students the right to national education and conditions for learning in the light of reflecting on their past wrongdoings and from a humanitarian standpoint, adding this is due obligation of Japan and its state responsibility. The Japanese authorities are finding fault with the contents of education at Korean schools operated by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) but this does not make sense. This is hideous human rights abuses and politically-motivated scheme which can be done only by the Japanese reactionaries who are steeped in inveterate and deep-seated hostility toward Chongryon and the DPRK. Japan would be well advised to ponder over the serious consequences to be entailed by the eruption of the pent-up resentment. -0-