The statement said that the Japanese authorities' crimes against officials of Chongryon were an undisguised suppression of Chongryon and acts that violated the sovereignty of the DPRK.

The statement went on:

The Japanese authorities and conservative media that serve them as their paid trumpeters should immediately stop crackdown upon Chongryon and make an apology for it.

They should know world people are not standing on their side and that anger against them is running high day by day in different countries, all but the U.S. imperialists and a handful of their satellites.