From: ndfsk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:10:32 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NDFSK Statements From Central Committee, National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) NDFSK Spokesman's Dec. 5 Statement (Gists) Our people have now exploded national anger for the political suppression that the Japanese reactionaries brought upon the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). In the end of November, the Japanese authorities arrested a director of a financial bureau of Chongryon central headquarters for the "crime of embezzlement" and mobilized several hundred of police to forcibly investigate the central headquarters, the Tokyo headquarters and the West Tokyo headquarters of Chongryon. The current suppression campaign is the premeditated political suppression that the Japanese reactionaries try to destroy Chongryon completely. Early in November the Japanese reactionaries mobilized several hundred of police to forcibly investigate 13 places including the head office of Kanto Korean Bank and arrested the four managing staffs of the bank including the former director general. The compulsory searches to Chongryon the Japanese reactionaries enforced recently shows the hostile maneuvers toward the Korean nation and the Korean compatriots in Japan. Japan, regarding north Korea as an "hostile country", Chongryon an "hostile country organization" and the Korean residents in Japan an "hostile country people", have continued a strict watch toward the organizations and the members of Chongryon. Recently, the Japanese reactionaries held a "national meeting", abusing north Korea openly as a "terrorism support country" and a "country violating human rights" and this time, is unfolding the overall suppression of Chongryon. Facts prove that the maneuvers of Japan following the U.S. anti-north hostility policy reached "danger waters". Japan is brutally suppressing on groundless charges the Korean compatriots in Japan, direct victims of its crimes committed in the past, and Chongryon, the legitimate organization protecting their democratic national rights and interests, instead of redressing them. It is an unpardonable crime of adding to its crimes already committed. The current incident has been the first unprecedented political suppression since the formation of Chongryon, and especially, has been enforced at the same time when Japan, taking advantage of the U.S. "revenge war against terrorism", has sent its "Self-defense Force" overseas practically. Japan must stop at once the anti-north Korea hostility policy and the suppression of Chongryon, release immediately the unjustly arrested compatriots, and apologize and compensate for the past crimes it committed toward the Korean nation. The NDFSK will join all the Korean people in the intensified anti-Japanese struggle to put an end to the Japanese reactionaries' hostile policy toward the Korean nation and their political suppression of Chongryon and certainly force them to apologize and compensate for their crime-woven past. Central Committee, National Democratic Front of South Korea, Seoul, December 5, 2001 _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________