Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed commentary carried in this regard.

It goes on:

The above-said intention of Japan is not a simple financial matter but a criminal move to deprive the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) of the right to national education.

The wrong assertion made by the Japanese reactionaries, talking about "survey" of the contents of education at the Korean schools is nothing but a far-fetched one intended to exclude the schools from the program at any cost. Lurking behind this move is a wicked and sinister intention to impose a heavy burden of school expenses on Korean students in Japan in a bid to deprive them of the opportunity of learning, bring the operation of their schools to a halt and, furthermore, throw Chongryon into a predicament.

The Korean students in Japan are the descendants of the Koreans who were taken away by the Japanese imperialists to Japan in the past. Had the Japanese imperialists neither reduced Korea to their colony nor forcibly took Koreans to Japan, the issue of education of Koreans in Japan would not have cropped up.

It is a crime in crude violation of international law for the Japanese reactionaries to contemplate a discriminatory and inhuman measure against the Korean students in Japan.

The Japanese authorities should give up at once such mean political charade, bearing deep in mind that they will meet bitterer international rebuff and criticism, should they persistently pursue an inhuman policy of national discrimination, defying the just demands of the Korean people and all other members of the international community, urges the commentary.