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minor update. Japan may be quaking in the boots based on the last two paragraphs

Don't Commit Another Crime



Simomura, Japanese minister of culture, education and science refuted a comment of a UN commission concerned that the Japanese government's exception of Korean schools from the tuition-free program for senior high schools is national discrimination.

He advanced a sophistry that the Japanese government excluded the Korean schools from the program because they have a close connection with Chongryon, or the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and deep relations with the DPRK.

If they have an ounce of conscience in them, the Japanese authorities should provide the Korean students in Japan with the rights to democratic national education and conditions for it from the standpoint of both their reflection on the past wrongdoings and moral obligation. It is Japan's duty and responsibility.

This notwithstanding, Japan excluded the Korean schools from the object of aid for the reason that they are connected with the DPRK and Simomura blustered that it is not national discrimination.

Simomura is steeped deep in the sense of hostility towards the DPRK and national chauvinism.

Japanese laws recognize the equal rights of all people to education though for form's sake and the stipulation is applied to foreign schools.

In Japan there are scores of foreign schools, but only Korean schools are excluded from the tuition-free program.

Simomura in charge of education of Japan is well aware of it. But, he takes issue with Korean schools deliberately because they teach history unlike Japanese schools.

Then, what is the case with other foreign schools in Japan?

The authorities concerned of Japan connive at history education of other foreign schools including American and Chinese schools, only demanding Korean schools revise the contents of education.

It is evident double standards and national discrimination.

What matters is the fact that it neither the individual stance of a few authorities, nor a temporary measure.

Japan is committing another crime against the Korean people.

The Korean people are firmly determined not to tolerate the Japanese reactionaries' policy of discrimination against the Korean nation and to settle accounts with the past crimes of Japan.

Nobody can know what would happen when the wrath of the Korean army and people erupts like volcano.

We warn the Japanese authorities to act with discretion.

Ri Hak Nam