Politics

A meeting took place at the Korean Hall of Culture in Tokyo on October 31 to mark the 80th anniversary of the enforcement of secondary education of Koreans in Japan.

Present there were Ho Jong Man, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), its First Vice-Chairman Pak Ku Ho and other vice-chairpersons, officials in Tokyo and the Kanto area, headmasters and teachers of Korean schools at all levels, parents of students, students of Korea University and students' delegates from Korean high schools.

The meeting began with the playing of the national anthem of the DPRK.

First Vice-Chairman Pak Ku Ho made a report.

He said that the 80-year history of secondary education for Korean children in Japan is a history of the peerlessly great men's special loving care for Koreans in Japan and outstanding guidance on their national education and a history of unity and struggle of Koreans in Japan for defending the right to national education.

He called for steadily carrying forward the history and traditions of the secondary education of Koreans in Japan, which are the precious patriotic legacy left by President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and which have been protected and developed by patriotic activists and compatriots by dedicating their blood and sweat generation after generation, true to the noble intention of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.

A letter to respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was adopted at the meeting.

A video titled "Pioneering and inheritance, echoes of 80-year history", which was sent from the homeland to mark the anniversary, was shown at the end of the meeting.