Hello, my name is Pae Anne, living in Yokohama, Japan. I was born and grow up in Japan and been educated since I was 2 up to university. I had no doubt to send my children from primary to high school at Korean school.

The race exclusionism had been set in Japan for long time however our ancestors kept love and pride in order to achieve unification of Korean Peninsula. To make our children live holding the pride, our brothers in Japan executed the ethnic education establishing a Korean school to plant, to name race's spirit to them, and to succeed to our ethnic culture.

Important talent grows up and is taking an active part by the soil of this Japan by a lot of people's efforts in not only Korean society but also the place where a lot of worlds including two Korea and Japan exist now.

Because this had had help that not only brothers in Japan but also a lot of friends in Japan supported us and many people of two Koreas did not regret, it was possible to accomplish it. However, the sadness occurred at a Korean school in Kyoto on 4th December. Abuse by group meeting of the exclusionist in Japan to which privileges of foreign resident in Japan were not permitted in front of a Korean school toward children like our treasure was poured.

I cannot let them off as one resident in Japan. This is not outside terrorism that takes the racial exclusionism character than anything. The exclusionist in Japan comes to a Korean school and insults us. This insult was not to have turned to this school simply. Are they having of no one when our race is insulted and our race is erased other than having been thrown out? This turns back to good relationship made in between Japanese and Korean to past era, which we were not coping well each other. Korean people in the world and the sentence introduced below translated the letter written in Japanese in a Korean language and English. Please co-operate to know this fact and to apply pressure to Japanese Government and media of Japan. Also, please tremble with fear today, and send words of encouragement to children who throw tears.

kyotodaiiti@ybb.ne.jp


We do anything we can do make our bright future under one fatherland and one ethnic.
Following letter has been translated by Mr. Kenichi Kikuchi, who is good Japanese friend of us being generous on loving protecting our school.

Threat to Korean people school that cannot be permitted by all means!

Dear friends
My name is Kim and sending my 2 children to 1st Kyoto Korean Primary School in Minami-ku, Kyoto City.

As many of you may know that Racist (racial discrimination) group appeared with no intention had caused incidence at front gate of the school by using disgusting words and phrases as swearing.

http://corea-k.net/date/000.wmv

I have hardly experiences up to now on such a provoking and mortifying time. The group shouted by using loudspeakers as interrupting classes as following. "Children of spy" "It is time to kick out Korean school from Japan. "It had the roaring of the loudspeaker of an unbelievably rude language as the person and the commotion was set up. Children inside were throwing tears frighteningly inside. To have thought it was provoking which was not to have felt it in the group mortifying of me.

There is the word of superstition "It is because of excrement is to be avoided because of scaring it, do not exist, and the uncleanness" as in the proverb of a Korean language. I feel that it cannot permit really in "Rule and good sense of this society" from which such a situation is excused.

It is assumed, "Our standpoint is intermediate" and the police even do not try also to control on that day though children are frightened. The speaker is not prohibited though makes incredible noise aiming at the schoolhouse before the school gate. Is this so called freedom of expression and speech? Justice was unbearably empty not to defend the child.

Though the park space has been opened as common for all users, the group swear in disgusting words as "Illegal occupancy", and move the goal post that the people in the region also are using, and violence that cuts the line of the speaker set up for the safety of the child who uses it, and throws out in front of the school gate with the morning gathering stand. Isn't it simply damage to property? Does compulsory execution have the authority by the civilian? Isn't it a threat crime though is frightened of children, even they cry? Isn't it a slandering neither the individual nor the group there and a contempt?

We did not struggle though we lodged a complaint with the police until going hoarse. I had talked about causing the human rights education and "Right that human rights and the child learnt" by a knowledgeable face at a certain university before it ran to the school. At this time, "Rights for humans and child learnt" was occasionally emptily heard. This problem wants to ask me not the problem of the group of some racists but "Good sense" of a Japanese society that allows it. Such a group might be some Japanese in the certainty. Some Japanese may admit that The Japanese is not only a bad sensed person. There might be a person who wants to say with belief too. However, It is not essence of this problem though the people in Japan might be victim in such a meaning. I think that this was permitted as for happening of such a situation clearly. It is thought that it is necessary to ask "Good sense of a Japanese society" only now.

It is already plenty though it has fully had really mortifying time up to now.
How many times we the Korean people ought to endure by swallow blood's tears whenever such horrifying incidence to occur? I was unable to sleep because the night was mortified for the idea, "I truly apologize to our children that not to be able to defend" from bottom of the heart honestly this time. How would passed away ancestors and grandparents look at this situation from the heaven? It is likely to grieve that even our great-grandchild get such a treatment done and to suffer. Thank you for lengthily writing up, and reading to the last minute. Please think about the good sense and the way it should be any longer by thinking about you how or these societies so that such a situation should not happen forever and ever.

 16-09-2009 www.corea-news.com

 

 

(2nd LD) U.S., N.K. officials meet in New York on N. Korean nuke: State Dept. 

 By Hwang Doo-hyong
 

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (Yonhap) -- A high-level U.S. envoy met with a senior North Korean official in New York Saturday to discuss Pyongyang's denuclearization, the U.S. State Department said.

   Sung Kim, U.S. special envoy to the six-party nuclear talks, met with Ri Gun, director general of the North American affairs bureau of North Korea's Foreign Ministry, who arrived in New York Friday to attend a set of seminars.

"DPRK Ambassador Ri Gun has traveled to the U.S. on the invitation of U.S. private organizations," State Dept. spokesman Noel Clay said in a statement.

   "During his visit, Ambassador Sung Kim took the opportunity to meet with him in New York on Oct. 24 to convey our position on denuclearization and the six-party talks." DPRK stands for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

   In New York, Ri emerged from a one-hour meeting at the U.S. mission to the United Nations and told reporters: "I met with Sung Kim and discussed issues of mutual interest."

   Ri stopped short of discussing the substance of the talks, saying, "Let's wait and see." The North Korean official said he may meet with Sung Kim again.

   Kim Myong-gil, deputy head of the North Korean mission to the U.N. in New York, said, "We have no plans to meet here again today. We will see you in San Diego."

   Ri has been invited to participate in the Northeast Asia Cooperative Dialogue (NEACD) at the University of California, San Diego, and also a seminar in New York hosted by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and the Korea Society.

   The event in San Diego, set for Oct. 25-27 and organized by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, is intended to bring together academics as well as government officials from all member nations of the six-party talks on ending the North Korean nuclear program -- the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan.

   Clay said that Sung Kim and Derek Mitchell, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense, will participate in the NEACD in San Diego.

   "NEACD is an annual track II event," Clay said. "Our level of participation this year is the same as previous years."

   Alexander Arvizu, then deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, attended last year's NEACD session in Beijing along with Jung Tae-yang, vice director general of the American bureau of the North Korean Foreign Ministry.

   Kim and Ri are expected to meet again next week to discuss preparations for a visit to Pyongyang by Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, for a breakthrough on the stalled nuclear negotiations.

   North Korea extended the invitation to Bosworth in August when former U.S. President Bill Clinton visited the North Korean capital to win the release of two American journalists.

   North Korea has boycotted the six-party talks due to U.N. sanctions for its nuclear and missile tests, but North Korean leader Kim Jong-il expressed his intention to come back to the talks earlier this month when he met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Pyongyang.

   Kim, however, linked the North's participation to the outcome of the anticipated bilateral talks with the U.S., which has yet to make a concrete decision on whether to send Bosworth to Pyongyang.

   U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the U.S. will not lift sanctions on North Korea or normalize ties unless Pyongyang takes irreversible steps toward denuclearization.

   "Within the framework of the six-party talks, we are prepared to meet bilaterally with North Korea. But North Korea's return to the negotiating table is not enough," she said.