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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. 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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Amnesty Int'l man speaks on Korean residents in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Arnold Fang, a researcher for East Asia at Amnesty International, speaks in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2014, on how to resolve human rights issues in North Korea. Fang said that if Japan sets an example by respecting the human rights of pro-Pyongyang Korean residents, it could help lead to a solution to the unresolved issue of Japanese nationals abducted by the North.

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

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2014 shows the Tokyo headquarters building of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a pro-Pyongyang group, in the capital's Chiyoda Ward. The Supreme Court has let stand a lower court decision to permit the sale of the building to a real estate developer in western Japan, rejecting an appeal by the Korean residents' group against the sale, officials said Nov. 5, 2014.

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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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Top court confirms sale permit of pro-Pyongyang group building

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the Tokyo headquarters building of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. Its ownership will be transferred to real estate developer Marunaka Holdings Co. after Japan's Supreme Court let stand a lower court decision to permit its sale.

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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 on way to N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Ho Jong Man, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a pro-North Korea organization, speaks to reporters upon arriving in Beijing, China, on his way from Tokyo to North Korea on Sept. 5, 2014.

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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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High court upholds ruling against hate speech

OSAKA, Japan - Shinichi Tokunaga, the defense lawyer for Zaitokukai, a group of anti-Korean activists, answers reporters' questions in Osaka on July 8, 2014, after the Osaka High Court upheld a lower court ruling that had branded as "discriminatory" demonstrations staged near a pro-Pyongyang Korean school by the activists who used hate-speech slogans.

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High court upholds ruling against hate speech

OSAKA, Japan - Son Chi Jong (L), head of Kyoto Chosen Gakuen, the operator of a pro-Pyongyang Korean school, holds a press conference in Osaka on July 8, 2014, after the Osaka High Court upheld a lower court ruling that had branded as "discriminatory" demonstrations staged near the school by anti-Korean activists who used hate-speech slogans.

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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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Buyer of pro-Pyongyang group's Tokyo HQ

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Chuvaamed Erdenebat, president of Avar Limited Liability Company, speaks with reporters in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on Oct. 24, 2013, after his company recently placed the winning bid for the Tokyo headquarters of a pro-Pyongyang group at auction. Erdenebat said his company did so purely for business reasons and has no links with the North Korean regime.

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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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Pro-Pyongyang Korean school

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Nishi-Tokyo Korean Second Elementary and Junior High School in the southwestern Tokyo city of Machida on April 8, 2013. The Machida City Board of Education the same day reversed a decision by the city to exclude students at the school from receiving personal safety alarms because of Japan's tense political relationship with North Korea.

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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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S. Korean activist in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Yong Nam (R), president of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, meets Ro Su Hui, a pro-Pyongyang South Korean activist, in Pyongyang on July 4, 2012.

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S. Korean activist in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Yong Nam (R), president of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, meets Ro Su Hui, a pro-Pyongyang South Korean activist, in Pyongyang on July 4, 2012.

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S. Korean activist in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Yong Nam (R), president of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, meets Ro Su Hui, a pro-Pyongyang South Korean activist, in Pyongyang on July 4, 2012.

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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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Remains of body found on N. Korean boat transferred

YONAGO, Japan - A vehicle (front), carrying the cremated remains of a man found dead on a North Korean boat in Japanese waters, leaves a local Japan Coast Guard office in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2012, to hand the remains over to the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.

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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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Gov't to provide tuition waivers to pro-Pyongyang schools

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Yoshiaki Takaki holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011. Takaki said he was asked by Prime Minister Naoto Kan earlier in the day to resume screening procedures to provide tuition waivers to pro-Pyongyang high schools in Japan. The procedures have been frozen since a North Korean artillery attack on a South Korean island last November.

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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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Pro-Pyongyang Koreans hold triennial Tokyo confab

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan hold a triennial plenary convention in Tokyo's Kita Ward on May 22, 2010. Some 2,000 people backing North Korea took part in the event, while permanent Korean residents supporting South Korea staged a protest rally outside the venue over the sinking of a naval ship.

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N. Korea urges Japan to include Korean schools in tuition aid

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Song Il Ho, ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Pyongyang on April 17, 2010. Song urged Japan to include pro-Pyongyang schools in Japan in a tuition waiver program for high school students ''as early as possible.''

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Korean schools urge gov't not to exclude them from program

TOKYO, Japan - Choe In Tae (C), vice chairman of the Conference of Principals of Korean High Schools in Japan, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo's Yurakucho on March 2, 2010. Choe, also the principal of a pro-Pyongyang high school in Ibaraki Prefecture, urged the government not to exclude such schools from a planned program to make high schools tuition-free.

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Pro-Pyongyang Korean schools unlikely to be tuition-free: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama answers questions from reporters at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2010. The premier suggested the same day that pro-Pyongyang senior high schools for Korean residents are unlikely to be covered by a proposed tuition fee exemption program due to difficulties checking their curriculum against Japanese guidelines.

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Pro-Pyongyang Korean schools unlikely to be tuition-free: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Principals of pro-Pyongyang senior high schools for Korean residents and parents whose children go to such schools attend a press conference at the Diet building on Feb. 25, 2010 as they protest the government's move not to grant a proposed tuition fee exemption program for senior high schools in Japan. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama suggested the same day that such pro-Pyongyang schools are unlikely to be covered by the program due to difficulties checking their curriculum against Japanese guidelines.

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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. 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.