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Tuition Waiver Program to Korean Schools Demanded in Seoul
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- Women's organizations of south Korea including the Women's Solidarity, the Federation of Women Organizations and the Council for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers' Corps called a press conference in Seoul on Nov. 17 urging the Japanese authorities to immediately apply the tuition waiver program to Korean schools in Japan.

At the conference speakers recalled that the Japanese authorities raised the use of Japanese textbooks, etc. as a precondition for applying the said program to Korean schools.

This is a despicable act of forcing the Korean schools to teach the students the distorted history of Japan that "Tok Islets belong to Japan," they stated, and continued:

Japan has been hell-bent on unreasonable prejudice and discriminations, far from specially treating the Korean students, the descendants of the compatriots who were forced to do slave labor after being drafted by the Japanese imperialists in the past.

They urged the Japanese authorities to roll back at once their discriminating policy regarding the education at the Korean schools and apply the above-said program to them without condition.

At the end of the press conference the organizations handed a written protest to the Japanese embassy.

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