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Chongryon Officials Encourage Quake-afflicted Korean Students

Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The chief vice-chairman and the director of the Education Department of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), the chairmen of the Niigata Prefectural Headquarters and the Fukushima Prefectural Headquarters of Chongryon visited the Korean senior middle school in Niigata where students of the Korean senior middle school in Fukushima study after suffering big losses owing to earthquake and the ensuing tsunami on May 20 and encouraged them.

Officials of Chongryon looked round class rooms and dormitories and learned about their health and living conditions.

The chief vice-chairman had round-table talks with teachers of the above-said schools in Fukushima and Niigata and compatriots in Niigata Prefecture.

He called upon organizations of Chongryon at various levels and all the compatriots to sincerely help the people in the afflicted areas by intensifying the campaign for collective mutual aid and support under the situation where the aftermath of the disasters is not yet eradicated and the damage caused by the accident at the nuclear power plant is on the steady increase.