The court passed an entirely unreasonable judgment on them as expected.

Minju Joson on Wednesday observes in a commentary in this regard:

The court gave the verdict of guilty, away from independence and impartiality of judicature.

This was a direct product of the deep-rooted bitterness toward the DPRK and Chongryon and an unprecedented fascist tyranny.

This trial was a politically-motivated deliberate farce staged by the Japanese reactionaries against Chongryon.

The court's ruling was a nonsensical far-fetched assertion and sheer sophism.

As the DPRK emphasized more than once, Chongryon is a legitimate and dignified overseas citizens' organization of the DPRK.

That's why the Japanese reactionaries' suppression of Chongryon was an unpardonable politically-motivated provocation against the DPRK.

The DPRK will never remain an onlooker to the Japanese reactionaries' wicked political suppression of Koreans in Japan and Chongryon.

The Japanese reactionaries should not misjudge the Korean people's hatred toward Japan but retract at once the unreasonable decision against the official of Chongryon, Korean in Japan and the enterprise.