KCNA Commentary Assails Japanese Reactionaries' Anti-Chongryon Campaign

Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Taken aback by the DPRK's successful nuclear warhead explosion test for self-defense, the Japanese reactionaries are getting frantic with campaign against the DPRK and Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan). The chief executive of Japan cried out for ratcheting up sanctions against the DPRK and the ruling and opposition parties agreed to adopt a "resolution critical of north Korea" at the Houses of Representatives and Councilors. All papers and TVs of Japan are busy airing programs accusing the DPRK in a bid to rapidly build up public opinion critical of the DPRK. Against this backdrop right-wing gangsters of Japan have flocked to the Central Hall of Chongryon since Sept. 9 to perpetrate all sorts of hooliganism. They brought dozens of loudspeaker vans around the hall to spout endless litany of such invectives that north Korea's ballistic rockets fell on exclusive economic zone of Japan, Tokyo condemns north Korea's nuclear warhead explosion test and it would expel Chongryon from Japan, creating a terror-ridden atmosphere there. With nothing can the Japanese reactionaries cover up their anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon campaign as they have intentionally and systematically patronized the hooliganism of the right-wing gangsters under the guise of "people's sentiment." Suppression of Chongryon can never be pardoned as it is another wanton violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK. The DPRK will never remain a passive onlooker to this repressive campaign but resolutely counter the Japanese reactionaries' despicable politically-motivated terrorism and persistent crackdown upon Chongryon and Koreans in Japan. The Japanese authorities should be held fully responsible for the right-wing gangsters' hooliganism, stop the ceaseless provocations and sternly punish those responsible for it. The DPRK will closely watch the behavior of the Japanese authorities. -0-