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Pro-N. Korean group's delegation to Pyongyang

Ko Dok U, head of the Tokyo branch of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan is pictured at Beijing Capital International Airport on Sept. 5, 2024, on his way to Pyongyang for a ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of North Korea's Founding. The pro-Pyongyang organization, known as Chongryon, sent its official delegation to Pyongyang for the first time after the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

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N. Koreans in Japan mourn Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - A woman (front) cries as she and other mourners offer red carnations during a memorial service for North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il, held by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a North Korean-affiliated organization known as Chongryon, at a hall in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Dec. 29, 2011.

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N. Koreans in Japan mourn Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - A memorial service for North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il is held by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a North Korean-affiliated organization known as Chongryon, at a hall in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Dec. 29, 2011.

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N. Korea-linked group's head office impounded

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo metropolitan government has impounded the head office (file photo) of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) over its failure to pay 75 million yen in a real estate acquisition tax, metropolitan government officials said Aug. 10.

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Top court confirms sale permit of pro-N. Korea group building in Tokyo

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Ichiro Shirai, lawyer for Marunaka Holdings Co., a real estate developer in the city of Takamatsu, western Japan, holds a press conference in the city on Nov. 5, 2014, following a decision by the Supreme Court to permit the sale of the Tokyo headquarters building of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan to Marunaka, rejecting an appeal by the pro-Pyongyang group against the sale. Shirai said his client will urge the group called Chongryon to vacate the building, which has functioned as North Korea's de facto embassy in Japan in the absence of diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Pyongyang.

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Japan-based N. Korean leader concludes trip to Pyongyang

BEIJING, China - Ho Jong Man, leader of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, gets into a car after arriving at the Beijing airport on Oct. 7, 2014, following his first trip to Pyongyang in eight years. It remains unclear whether the leader of Japan's most influential pro-Pyongyang group, commonly known as Chongryon, met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his one-month stay.

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Leader of pro-Pyongyang group in Japan leaves for N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Ho Jong Man (far R), chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, departs from Tokyo's Haneda airport for North Korea on Sept. 5, 2014. It is his first visit to North Korea since the Japanese government imposed a ban in 2006 on Chongryon executives re-entering Japan after trips to the North as part of Tokyo's unilateral sanctions in the wake of a missile launch by Pyongyang.

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Leader of pro-Pyongyang group in Japan leaves for N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Ho Jong Man (R), chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, departs from Tokyo's Haneda airport for North Korea on Sept. 5, 2014. It is his first visit to North Korea since the Japanese government imposed a ban in 2006 on Chongryon executives re-entering Japan after trips to the North as part of Tokyo's unilateral sanctions in the wake of a missile launch by Pyongyang.

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Chongryon chairman Ho Jong Man

TOKYO, Japan - Ho Jong Man, chairman of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, is photographed on May 24, 2014. Ho was reappointed as the chairman at the 23rd Congress of the association.

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Chongryon opens 23rd congress in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The 23rd Congress of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan opens in Tokyo on May 24, 2014.

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Pro-Pyongyang group's Tokyo building to be vacated

TOKYO, Japan - The headquarters building of Chongryon, a pro-Pyongyang Korean group, in Tokyo is photographed in March 2014. The Tokyo High Court rejected the group's appeal against the sale of the building and land to a Japanese real estate company on May 12, 2014.

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Pro-Pyongyang group raps Tokyo court decision

TOKYO, Japan - Nam Sung U (L), vice chairman of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan known as Chongryon, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2014, condemning the Tokyo District Court's decision approving the sale of the pro-Pyongyang group's headquarters in the Japanese capital to a real estate agent.

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Pro-Pyongyang group's Tokyo headquarters

TOKYO, Japan - A March 24, 2014, photo using a fisheye lens shows the Tokyo headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, in the Japanese capital's Chiyoda Ward. The Tokyo District Court on the same day approved the sale of the building and land to Marunaka Holdings, a Japanese real estate company.

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Pro-Pyongyang group's Tokyo headquarters

TOKYO, Japan - A March 24, 2014, photo shows the Tokyo headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, in the Japanese capital's Chiyoda Ward. The Tokyo District Court on the same day approved the sale of the building and land to Marunaka Holdings, a Japanese real estate company.

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Pro-N. Korea group's Tokyo HQ

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2013 shows the Tokyo headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a pro-Pyongyang Korean residents' group known as Chongryon, in central Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.

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Chongryon's Tokyo office

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2013 shows the headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The Tokyo District Court said on Jan. 23, 2014, that it has rejected a Mongolian bidder's offer to buy out the headquarters and land of the pro-Pyongyang Korean residents' group.

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Chongryon's Tokyo office

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 17, 2013, shows the Tokyo headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon. A bidder named "Avar Limited Liability Company" won an auction the same day to acquire the site for 5.01 billion yen, the Tokyo District Court said.

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Temple decides not to buy pro-Pyongyang group's land

FUJISAWA, Japan - Ekan Ikeguchi, head of Saifuku temple in Kagoshima Prefecture, holds a press conference in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 10, 2013. The chief priest of the Buddhist temple officially announced that it has dropped a plan to buy the land and head office building of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon. The temple won the bidding for the site of the pro-Pyongyang group in March.

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Temple drops plan to buy Chongryon site

TOKYO, Japan - Ekan Ikeguchi, leader of Saifuku temple in Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks to reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 9, 2013. The priest said the temple will drop a plan to purchase the Tokyo headquarters site of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, because it is unable to pay 4.5 billion yen for the site by the May 10, 2013, deadline.

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Paying for winning bid at standstill

TOKYO, Japan - Ekan Ikeguchi, chief priest of Saifuku temple in Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks in Tokyo on April 24, 2013. Ikeguchi suggested the Buddhist temple may not be able to acquire the land and building of the Tokyo headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, as it has no clear prospects for paying 4.5 billion yen for the properties by the May 10 deadline.

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Pro-Pyongyang group's headquarters

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2013 shows the central Tokyo headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon. The Tokyo District Court said March 29, 2013, it has allowed a Japanese Buddhist temple with ties to North Korea to acquire the real estate.

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Buddhist group to acquire pro-Pyongyang group's office

FUJISAWA, Japan - Ekan Ikeguchi, leader of Saifuku temple, answers reporters' questions concerning the temple's planned acquisition of the Tokyo headquarters of a pro-Pyongyang group, in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 26, 2013. Ikeguchi said he was asked by a senior North Korean official to maintain the Chongryon headquarters and that his temple plans to lease the building to the group. The government-backed Resolution and Collection Corp. put the premises out to tender to recoup loans of around 62.7 billion yen, and the temple based in Kagoshima Prefecture offered 4.5 billion yen, the highest among four bidders.

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Buddhist group to acquire pro-Pyongyang group's HQ

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows Saifuku temple in the city of Kagoshima on March 26, 2013. The Buddhist group that operates the temple won the same day a court-led tender to acquire the Tokyo headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon.

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Ex-Chongryon chairman buried in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean Premier Choe Yong Rim makes a speech in memory of So Man Sul, former chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, who was buried in Pyongyang on May 28, 2012.

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Ex-Chongryon chairman buried in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A wreath bearing the name of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is carried to the grave of So Man Sul, former chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, who was buried in Pyongyang on May 28, 2012.

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Police raid pro-Pyongyang Korean group

TOKYO, Japan - Riot police officers stand guard next to a building housing an organization affiliated with the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2012. The Tokyo police raided the group in connection with a case involving a computer equipment sales company that is suspected of illegally exporting laptops to North Korea.

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Memorial for Chongryon chief

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A memorial service is held at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Feb. 25, 2012, for So Man Sul, the late chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon.

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Chongryon chief's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - A wreath from North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un (L) is placed beside the portrait of So Man Sul, the late chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, as the group known as Chongryon held a funeral for So in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2012.

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Chongryon head dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2006 shows So Man Sul, chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon. He died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward on Feb. 20, 2012, at the age of 84.

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Chongryon flies North Korean flag at half mast

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2011, shows the North Korean flag being flown at half mast outside the head office of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), following news that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had died.

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Chongryon flies North Korean flag at half mast

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2011, shows the North Korean flag being flown at half mast outside the head office of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), following news that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had died.

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Scenes from Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Customers look at the menu of a restaurant run by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a pro-Pyongyang Korean group known as Chongryon, near Pyongyang Station on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Scenes from Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Customers fill a restaurant run by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a pro-Pyongyang Korean group known as Chongryon, near Pyongyang Station on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Ex-official of Chongryon affiliate to be arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Riot police confront supporters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, as police searched Chongryon's federation of chambers of commerce and industry in Tokyo's Taito Ward Nov. 27. Police plan to arrest a former official of a Chongryon affiliate on suspicion of violating the certified tax accountant law.

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Supporters protest police raid on Chongryon affiliate

TOKYO, Japan - Supporters protest a police raid on an affiliate of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, on suspicion of violating the certified tax accountant law in Tokyo's Kabukicho area on Oct. 29.

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N. Korean defector sues Chongryon over emigration program

OSAKA, Japan - Yumiko Chiba speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 13 after filing an 11 million yen damages suit against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, over its responsibility for a program that promoted the emigration of Korean residents of Japan to North Korea. Chiba, 47, moved to North Korea with her parents in 1963 under the program and defected from the country in 2003.

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N. Korea group's No. 2 leader questioned over failed sale of property

TOKYO, Japan - Ho Jong Man, chief vice chairman of the General Association of Korean Residents of Japan, or Chongryon, leaves his residence in Tokyo's Sugiunami Ward on June 21 to be questioned by Japanese prosecutors over allegations that the pro-Pyongyang group transferred the ownership of its Tokyo head office and premises in a bid to evade possible seizure by a creditor in the event that it lost a court battle.

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Plan to sell N. Korea group's head office abandoned

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Koken Tsuchiya speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on June 18. He said he has taken procedures to revert the ownership of the properties of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, on an official registry from a company headed by Shigetake Ogata, a former chief of the government's intelligence agency, indicating that a plan to sell the properties to the company has been abandoned.

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Plan to sell N. Korea group's head office abandoned

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows the building that houses the head office of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. A plan to sell the properties to a company headed by Shigetake Ogata, a former chief of the government's intelligence agency, has been abandoned.

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Chongryon lawyer denies criminal nature of sale to ex-intel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Koken Tsuchiya, a lawyer representing the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, tells reporters in Tokyo on June 14 that no crime was involved in a deal to sell its head office in Tokyo to an investment advisory firm headed by a former chief of the Public Security Intelligence Agency.

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Deal to sell Chongryon HQ to ex-intelligence chief may fall through

TOKYO, Japan - Shigetake Ogata, former director general of the Public Security Intelligence Agency who heads an investment advisory firm, speaks about a deal to sell the head office of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, to his firm at a news conference in Tokyo on June 13.

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Chongryon head office sold to investment advisory firm

TOKYO, Japan - The pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, has sold its head office in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward (photo) to the Harvest investment advisory company headed by Shigetake Ogata, former director of the Public Security Intelligence Agency.

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Police raid N. Korea groups over abduction

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers clash with members of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on April 25 during a police raid on a Chongryon institute to search it over the alleged kidnapping of two children from Japan to North Korea in 1974.

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Pro-N. Korea group official nabbed over tax documents

KOBE, Japan - Policemen stand guard outside the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Korean residents in Hyogo Prefecture in Kobe on Jan. 10. An official of the group affiliated with the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon was arrested on suspicion of making tax documents without a tax accountant license.

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Pro-Pyongyang group rejects letter on nukes from pro-Seoul group

TOKYO, Japan - Han Jae Un, vice president of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan, throws a letter protesting North Korea's claimed nuclear test, at the headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in Tokyo on Oct. 18 after Chongryon rejected receiving the letter.

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N. Korea says it has conducted nuclear test

TOKYO, Japan - People shout their protest outside the building that houses the headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in Tokyo on Oct. 9, hours after North Korea said it has successfully conducted an underground nuclear test.

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Pro-Seoul Korean group goes back on reconciliation with pro-Pyongyang group

TOKYO, Japan - Ha Byeong Ok, president of Mindan, the pro-Seoul Korean residents group in Japan, reads a statement during his press conference at the Mindan headquarters in Tokyo's Minami-Azabu district on July 6. Ha announced the withdrawal of a joint reconciliation statement it signed in May with Chongryon, its pro-Pyongyang counterpart, citing North Korea's missile launches as the reason.

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Mindan head hints at reviewing reunion with Chongryon

TOKYO, Japan - Ha Byeong Ok (standing), president of the Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan), addresses an extraordinary central committee meeting in Tokyo on June 24.

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Heads of Pro-Seoul, pro-Pyongyang Koreans vow reconciliation

TOKYO, Japan - Ha Byung Ok (L), leader of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan, or Mindan, and So Man Sul, leader of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, shake hands at Chongryon's headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 17 after signing a joint statement on reconciliation.

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Heads of pro-Seoul, pro-Pyongyang Korean groups meet

TOKYO, Japan - So Man Sul (2nd from L in front), leader of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, and Ha Byung Ok (2nd from R in front), leader of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan, or Mindan, join hands for photos at Chongryon headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 17.