The Iranian Workers' House bitterly denounced the Japanese reactionaries for searching the houses of the chairman and a vice-chairman of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee.

It went on:

The illegal intrusion into the houses of senior officials of Chongryon shows what extent Japan's hostility toward the DPRK and the Korean nation has reached.

We demand the Japanese authorities take immediate measures for respecting the rights of the Korean residents in Japan.

The Sweden-Korea Friendship Association stated:

The search for the houses of Chairman Ho Jong Man and Vice-Chairman Nam Sung U of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee who are deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK was an illegal discrimination against the Koreans in Japan and human rights abuses against them and an unpardonable provocation against the DPRK and infringement on its sovereignty.

The Japanese police authorities' fascist action will seriously affect the DPRK-Japan relations as it will push them to the worst phase.

The France-Korea Friendship Association said that the search for the houses of senior officials of Chongryon could never be justified as it was perpetrated, pursuant to the Japanese authorities' moves against Chongryon.