An emergency statement was read out at the press conference in the name of the Society of Principals of Korean High Schools, the Liaison Council of the Society of Mothers of Korean Students, the Liaison Society of Students of Korean High Schools and director-generals of Korean schools from different parts of Japan.

The statement accused the chief cabinet secretary and the minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan of asserting on Nov. 24 that it was advisable to stop the procedures for applying the tuition-waiver program to the Korean schools now that the situation has grown tense on the Korean Peninsula and the prime minister of instructing the above-said minister to halt the procedures.

It is illogical for them to link the application of the above-said program to the students of Korean schools engrossed in study to the situation, it deplored, and continued:

This runs counter to the purpose of the tuition-waiver program and what the above-said minister officially declared in his statement concerning the issue of tuition-waiver program for Korean schools early in November.

It is intolerable that only students of Korean schools are subject to serious national discrimination, the statement noted, urging the Japanese government to immediately apply the tuition-waiver program to the Korean schools as early as possible.