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Kwangju Student Incident, Reminder of Japanese Imperialists' Atrocities
Pyongyang, November 8 (KCNA) -- The Japanese imperialists are the sworn enemy of the Korean nation. They inflicted unspeakable pain and misfortune on the Korean people by committing all sorts of crimes during their colonial rule.

Among the crimes is the Kwangju student incident in November 1929 when the Japanese imperialists mercilessly suppressed Korean students.

In the morning of October 30, 1929, a Japanese hooligan student insulted and molested a Korean girl student on Kwangju-Raju train.

Enraged by it, Korean students meted out due punishment to him. But the Japanese imperialist police only beat Korean students, not inquiring into the actual story and reptile newspapers serving the Japanese imperialists distorted the truth.

On November 1, the Japanese imperialists armed over 300 Japanese students and teachers and let them assault Korean students gathered at Kwangju railway station for demonstration.

Infuriated by this, the Korean students in Kwangju city declared school strike on November 3 all at once and turned out in a massive anti-Japanese demonstration.

The Korean students' anti-Japanese struggle, triggered off by the Kwangju student incident, rapidly spread across the country from December that year.

The Japanese imperialists tightened cordon nationwide and brutally cracked down on the Korean students even with the involvement of army along with police.

In January 1930, the Japanese imperialists suppressed a demonstration of Korean students in Kyongsong with the mobilization of thousands-strong force of police and horse-riding patrol party and all sorts of vehicles. As the students continued their struggle in defiance of the suppression, the Japanese imperialists even involved two regiments of their aggression army in the end.

The whole country was drenched with blood shed by Korean students.

The Kwangju student incident over 90 years ago incites towering resentment of the Korean people against the Japanese imperialists.

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