The 22nd meeting of the Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters of Chongryon was held at the Korean Hall of Culture in Tokyo on June 6.

Present at the meeting were Ho Jong Man, chief vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon, Kim Hong Chol, director of the General Affairs Department, and other deputies.

The meeting first heard a congratulatory message sent by the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK to the 22nd Congress of Chongryon.

Then followed a report and speeches. They stressed the need to make a breakthrough in national education and the work with the young Koreans and Korean workers in commerce in the future in order to usher in a new heyday of the patriotic movement.

Solidarity speeches were made by Japanese figures at the meeting.

Ho Jong Man in his speech said that in order to keep pace with the compatriots in the homeland, sharing thinking and will with them in the stirring era in which a leap forward and miracles are brought about Chongryon should wage a dynamic "movement for inviting Koreans to come to the fold of Chongryon" and "a movement to gain a proper position of Koreans in Japan" for fresh progress of the Korean community in the new century.

A letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il was read out at the meeting.

On the same day, the 22nd meeting of the Osaka Prefectural Headquarters of Chongryon was held at the Korean Hall of Culture in Osaka.