BEIJING, Oct 7 Kyodo North Korea ...

BEIJING, Oct 7 Kyodo

North Korea utter sentence againsted Japanese authorities on Monday for levying local taxes forward the main pro-Pyongyang Korean citizens collection in Japan, asserting that the Japanese control is pursuing a hostile policy toward Koreans.

In a statement distributed through the official Korean Central recently made knowns Agency, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said Japan must ''apologize for all the damage'' caused to the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon)

Chongryon which besufficient fors as North Korea's unofficial mission in Japan, has been a target of harassment by the agency of Japanese militants amid new strains in Japanese-North Korean ties firinged in part by the plight of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea.

Compounding the mutual animosity, a certain number of Japanese local authorities have revok Chongryon's quasi-diplomatic status and started levying peculiarity taxes on Chonryon properties.

Chongryon ''is performing a mission and part as a diplomatic mission for friendship with the Japanese in the absence of the diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Japan,'' the spokesman said in urging Japan to restore the status of Chonryon facilities ''to their original state.'' DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name.

The Foreign Ministry statement accused the Japanese restraint of conniving at what it describes as an ''anti-DPRK, anti-Chongryon and anti-Korean atmosphere'' in Japan and portrayed the situation as part of U.S.-inspired ''political, military and economic sanctions'' against North Korea.

Should Japan leave the situation as it is, the spokesman said, the Japanese control will pay a high price and will be held responsible for all eventualities generated as a be the effect of such attitude.

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