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	Zainichi Korean Summary
		Some Chongryon schools have been closed for lack of funding, and there is serious doubt as to the continuing viability of the system as a whole.
		In general, Chongryon is a declining organization primarily maintained by older Zainichi Chosenjin who appreciate the contributions the organization and the North Korean government has made to their lives, regardless of present political conditions.
		Whether the officials of Chongryon had known of the kidnappings or not, ordinary members of Chongryon who had believed the party line felt deeply humiliated and disillusioned upon discovering that they had been used as mouthpieces to deny what was seen in Japan as serious wrongdoing by North Korea.
	www.bookrags.com /Zainichi_Korean (2073 words)

	Talks between Delegates of Chongryon and Mindan Held
		Chongryon and Mindan decided to take an active part in the national movement for implementing the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and participate in the June 15 grand festival for national reunification as members of a delegation of the Japan Regional Committee.
		Chongryon and Mindan decided to take a serious view of the reality of dilution and loss of national identity growing in the Korean community in Japan at present and make joint efforts for the education of the new generation, promotion of national culture and others to preserve and display national identity.
		Chongryon and Mindan decided to establish channels and consult often with a view to implementing the above-said agreed points and settling the problems to be raised between the two organizations.
	www1.korea-np.co.jp /pk/229th_issue/2006051701.htm (288 words)

	FM Spokesman Urges Japan to Stop Suppression of Chongryon
		And they intensified financial pressure to disorganize Chongryon, scheming to totally withdraw the measure for exempting all facilities related to Chongryon across the country from municipal property tax of local autonomous bodies under the pretext of "strict application of the existing law".
		The Japanese government is legally and morally obliged to ensure Chongryon’s activities and protect the living of Koreans in Japan from the historical viewpoint, the spokesman said.
		Chongryon is a legitimate overseas Koreans' organization of the DPRK which defends all the democratic national rights of Koreans in Japan and it plays the role of a diplomatic mission which promotes friendship with the Japanese people, given that there is no diplomatic relations between the two countries.
	www1.korea-np.co.jp /pk/228th_issue/2006041508.htm (430 words)

	Quaest.io on Chongryon
		Chongryon members primarily consist of those who have retained their nationality registration of Joseon, as opposed to those who have chosen to take up either Japanese or South Korean nationality.
		Chongryon claims to be a representative body of overseas North Korean citizens living in Japan, and reject the notion that they are a mere ethnic minority.
		Chongryon supporters are thought to control as much as one third of the pachinko industry in Japan.
	www.quaest.io /?title=chongryon (2735 words)

	Chongryon at AllExperts
		Chongryon's headquarters are in Tokyo, and there are prefectural and regional head offices and branches.
		However, as the problems of North Korea and Chongryon have been revealed one after another and their activities are often against Japan's interests, Japan's public opinion has become progressively more negative toward Chongryon (as Chongryon is strongly identified with North Korea in Japan).
		Chongryon affiliates and supporters are thought to control as much as one third of the pachinko industry in Japan.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/chongryon.htm (500 words)

	Tongil Korea :: Acts of Oppression of Chongryon by Japanese Reactionaries
		The Japanese authorities assume the state responsibility and are duty-bound to legally protect the Koreans in Japan and Chongryon both in view of the historical circumstances where they were forcibly taken to Japan from Korea during the Japanese military occupation and of the national status of their descendants.
		Moreover, Chongryon has striven for the friendly relations with the Japanese people though there are no diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan.
		Movements assume greater intensity in Japan under the backstage manipulation of the authorities to cancel tax exemption upon the Chongryon establishments, branding it as "illegal" on the "ground" that it is "an integrated organization of north Korea".
	www.tongilkorea.net /?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=3199 (577 words)

	Korean Central News Agency Dec 12 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
		The council in a letter sent to Chongryon on Dec. 6 said that the council and Koreans from all walks of life in the U.S. extended with warm compatriotic feelings firm solidarity to the Chongryon officials and compatriots in Japan in their just struggle to foil the Japanese authorities' repressive campaign.
		This was a high-handed political suppression of Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan and a wanton violation of the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK.
		The blatant political suppression of Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan is aimed to serve their sinister political purpose of infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK.
	www.mail-archive.com /antinato@topica.com/msg02397.html (1643 words)

	AP Wire \| 10/24/2006 \| Test sparks N. Korea backlash in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chongryon has not commented on the nuclear test, but was quick to condemn the backlash.
		Chongryon's future is anything but bright, said David C. Kang, a North Korea expert at Dartmouth University.
		Chongryon tried to bolster its support by striking a landmark reconciliation accord with the South Korean association in Japan earlier this year.
	www.fortwayne.com /mld/journalgazette/15838377.htm (775 words)

	N Koreans in Japan fear nuclear test backlash : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chongryon officials, though, worry that Pyongyang's nuclear brinkmanship and Japan's stern reaction could fan mistrust.
		Chongryon's membership also took a hit after Pyongyang admitted in 2002 that it had abducted 13 Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s to help train spies.
		Chongryon officials shy away from public criticism of North Korea, but privately some members blame their ancestral homeland.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1819458,00050004.htm (700 words)

	Breaking News Stories--Japan Next Giant?
		Chongryon has not commented on the nuclear test, but was quick to condemn the backlash.
		Chongryon's future is anything but bright, said David C. Kang, a North Korea expert at Dartmouth University.
		Chongryon tried to bolster its support by striking a landmark reconciliation accord with the South Korean association in Japan earlier this year.
	www.garnertedarmstrong.ws /Mark_Wordfroms/Japan1/JAPAN_NEXT_GIANT-04.shtml (787 words)

	YONHAPNEWS WORLD SERVICE::ENGLISH NEWS
		With the collapse of the socialist camp in the early 1990s, the number of people leaving Chongryon sharply increased, and it was also faced with serious financial problems because its seven financial institutions went bankrupt in late 2000.
		Following the 19th congress, Chongryon has sought to escape from its difficulties by hindering the younger generation of its membership from leaving and by reconstructing its banking organizations, but the problems have not been yet solved.
		Chongryon has been under fire from Japanese citizens since North Korean leader Kim Jong-il admitted to the abduction of 13 Japanese citizens in the late 1970s and 1980s by the North's agents during the first summit with his counterpart Koizumi, held in Pyongyang in September 2002.
	english.yna.co.kr /Engservices/3035440000.html (3821 words)

	Past news
		Speakers at the rally denounced the Japanese reactionaries' crackdown upon Chongryon as an undisguised criminal move to destroy Chongryon, a dignified organization of overseas citizens of the DPRK, and an outrageous violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK.
		Recalling that the Japanese authorities committed unprecedented fascist actions against Chongryon, the statement said this fact clearly indicates that the Japanese reactionaries' campaign was a deliberate and premeditated suppression committed to serve their despicable political purpose of destroying Chongryon and an intolerable hostile act against the Korean nation.
		So Man Sul, chairman of the central standing committee of Chongryon, said in his report that the high-handed investigation committed by the Japanese investigation authorities into Chongryon was political suppression perpetrated to serve their sinister purpose and an intentional plot hatched against Chongryon.
	www.kcna.co.jp /item/2001/200112/news12/07.htm (1310 words)

	Tongil Korea :: Anniversary of Chongryon Observed
		The formation of Chongryon was a brilliant embodiment of the Juche-oriented idea and leadership of the President over the overseas compatriots movement and a historic event which brought about a signal change in the movement of Koreans in Japan and their life.
		Chongryon has creditably fulfilled its responsibility and role as the representative and defender of genuine rights and interests of the Koreans in Japan.
		Many countries have their compatriots overseas and their organizations in the world, but there can hardly be in any other parts of the world such overseas compatriots organization as Chongryon intensely loyal to the leader, the nation and the homeland and enthusiastic in compatriotism.
	www.tongilkorea.net /?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=2521 (211 words)

	Past news
		Visits of officials of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan to their homeland by Ship "Mangyongbong-92" are banned by law, watch and persecution of them have been intensified and the assaults on Korean schools and their students have become pronounced.
		Japan is swept by a whirlwind of crackdown upon Chongryon and Koreans in Japan.
		The suppression of Chongryon and xenophobia against Koreans in Japan are an intolerable challenge and provocation against the DPRK as they are an extremely grave development, a product of the Japanese authorities' hostile policy towards it.
	www.kcna.co.jp /item/2006/200611/news11/22.htm (3724 words)

	Japan accused of suppressing Koreans - Boston.com
		The two countries have no diplomatic relations and Chongryon acts as a de facto embassy for tens of thousands of ethnic Koreans who live in Asia's richest capitalist society yet see the communist North as home.
		The North Korean Foreign Ministry statement criticized the search of Chongryon's headquarters in Tokyo and another office in November and said the crackdown "has gotten more brutal since the outset of the year." It cited searches of at least 30 Chongryon-related facilities by Japanese public security authorities by early February.
		"Chongryon is a legitimate organization of overseas citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," Pak said, using North Korea's official name, "and Japanese brutal oppression on it and Koreans in Japan constitutes the criminal act of infringing upon the sovereignty of a dignified member state of the United Nations."
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2007/03/08/japan_accused_of_suppressing_koreans (655 words)

	Kim Jong Il's Candid Conversation on Tape
		The Chongryon workers were good-intentioned but they did not understand the situation here and kept on sending factories that could not work here.
		Therefore, Chongryon workers should look for factories that match our needs and that can be reassembled and expanded with ease.
		The Chongryon leaders live in a hostile nation and read news papers that are hostile to us.
	www.kimsoft.com /2003/kji-tape.htm (7503 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This crackdown upon the Chongryon organization got more reckless with their search operations against the Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters of Chongryon and the Niigata Agency of the Office for Visits of Koreans to Their Homeland late in November last year as a momentum and it has gotten more brutal since the outset of the year.
		This brutal political suppression of Chongryon, a legitimate organization of overseas citizens of the dignified DPRK, and Koreans in Japan, members of the Korean nation, is an unpardonable infringement upon the sovereignty of our country and an unprecedented crime against humanity.
		As far as the Koreans in Japan are concerned, they are victims who were forcibly taken to Japan in the past under the signboards of military service, forced labor, comfort women for the army and under other pretexts where they were subject to unlimited plunder, exploitation, slave labor and submission or their descendants.
	www.minjok.com /english/news.php3?code=2635 (477 words)

	KoreaTimes : [Another Korea] (68) A School of Thought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chongryon’s educational department compiles the curriculum and textbooks for the Chongryon schools.
		Children and, for that matter, most Chongryon supporters, are led to believe that these funds are crucial in running the schools.
		This is not the case, although the Chongryon budget is a closely guarded secret, there are few doubts that remittances from Chongryon to North Korea far exceed any contributions made by the North Korean government toward the schooling of Korean children.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/opinion/200406/kt2004061519140354140.htm (714 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At a U.S. Congressional hearing last month, a man claiming to be a former North Korean engineer testified that the Man Gyong Bong-92 had been used by Chongryon regularly to smuggle missile parts to North Korea.
		The allegations have been flatly denied by Chongryon.
		The Chongryon spokesman said it was still unclear whether it would make its next port call scheduled for July 3.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-06/23/article07.shtml (548 words)

	donga.com [english donga]
		Despite the observations that Chongryon has changed a lot with the change of time, the fact that the link with the North is the base of Chongryon’s existence was reconfirmed.
		During the period between the 1960s and 1970s, when the struggle between the two Koreas was severe, the association used to engage in conflicts with the Korean Resident Union in Japan (also known as Mindan) in Japan.
		Chongryon was notorious as a strongpoint in Japan to carry out operations against the South.
	english.donga.com /srv/service.php3?bicode=050000&biid=2005052510168 (517 words)

	Korean Central News Agency Dec 18
		He denounced the Japanese authorities' crackdown on Chongryon as a political crime and a challenge to the DPRK.
		Chongryon is a dignified overseas citizens organization of the DPRK and a Juche-type overseas compatriots organization which works to develop the movement of Koreans in Japan under the banner of the great Juche idea.
		Chongryon has carried on its vigorous struggle to implement the policy of national reunification of the DPRK government, in response to it, strengthened friendship with foreign people including the Japanese people, boosted the relations with international bodies and organizations and thus greatly contributed to raising the international authority of the DPRK.
	www.mail-archive.com /kominform@lists.eunet.fi/msg10921.html (2005 words)

	asahi.com：Korean residents in anguish/ Broken dreams - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After she fell ill in the mid-1970s, Chongryon officials started harassing her by making repeated visits to the restaurant to demand she hand over her property to the organization.
		As testimony to this, Kim said senior Chongryon officials were left in no doubt that they had to toe the line when they were forced to educate their children in North Korea under a repatriation program set up in 1959.
		Chongryon, ever-eager to meet the requests of its master in Pyongyang, seized on Japan's asset-inflated bubble economy in the late 1980s to set up pachinko parlors and real-estate businesses, journalist Kim said.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200701040120.html (1375 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Japan raid on pro-Pyongyang group
		Three top Chongryon officials are also wanted for questioning over the case, the sources said.
		Chongryon staff and supporters clashed with police and one man was reportedly arrested for trying to block the search.
		Chongryon described the raid as a "political crackdown" by the Japanese authorities ahead of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the US.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6590793.stm (402 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Japan
		The pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, was notified yesterday it won a legal battle with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which was trying to ban the protest.
		Chongryon's application to gather in Hibiya Park was approved on Jan. 25 and overturned the following day by the Metropolitan Government.
		Chongryon expects 5,000 people to join the protest tomorrow, which will also mark the anniversary of March 1 uprising against Japanese colonial rule in Korea in 1919.
	newsonjapan.com /cgi-bin/news/link.cgi?ID=50111 (757 words)

	CORRECTED: Pro-Pyongyang group rules out link to abduction… Asian Political News - Find Articles
		''Chongryon as a group has never involved itself'' with the abductions, Nam Sung U, vice chairman of Chongryon, told reporters, in reference to the recent admission by the North that it had, after years of denial, abducted 13 Japanese in the past.
		The Chongryon vice chairman said Pyongyang wants to resolve the abduction issue as much as Tokyo does and as soon as possible, and expressed hope the North would in the long run be able to convey its sincerity to Japan.
		Chongryon says there were 398 cases of threatening calls made and mails sent to its North Korean schools over the period from Sept. 17 to Oct. 5.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2002_Nov_18/ai_94330879 (552 words)

	Zainichi Koreans - Galbijim
		Due to their historical origins - all were set up with support from the North - they maintain a strong pro-Pyeongyang ideology, which have sometimes come under criticism from pupils, parents and the public alike.
		Until very recently, graduates of Chongryon schools were not even permitted to take public university entrance exams, as they were not classified as regular schools, but rather in the same category as cooking or driving schools.
		Reasons stated for this increased disassociation include widespread mainstream tolerance of Koreans by Japanese in recent years, greatly reducing the need to rely on Chongryon, and the increasing unpopularity of Kim Jong Il even among loyal members of Chongryon.
	wiki.galbijim.com /Zainichi_Koreans (1993 words)

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