• Thursday, 07 September 2023 | 22:52
• Juche Korea: 75 Years for Independence, Justice and Defense of Peace

全世界で拡がる自主の大きな流れに合流しよう

朝鮮民主主義人民共和国創建75周年を慶祝し、朝鮮の自主的平和統一を支持する日本委員会より連帯のアピールを発します。

いま朝鮮を含む東アジアはかつてないほどの緊張関係にあリます。米国は全世界で残虐非道な戦争状況をつくりだし、それに日本や韓国, ＮＡＴＯまでが追従しています。特に日本は、過去の侵略戦争と植民地支配を何ら反省も謝罪もせずに、居丈高に朝鮮を仮想敵国とし、在日朝鮮人にヘイトクライムを続けており、核汚染水の海洋放出同様全世界からその姿勢が厳しく指弾されています。

第二次世界大戦後、世界は帝国主義の圧政の中から、民族解放戦争などで大きく前進・変動してきました。しかし、朝鮮だけは未だに民族が分断され、停戦状態のままいつ戦争になっても不思議ではない緊張が続き、平和統一が成し遂げられていません。朝鮮人民が強いられているこの悲劇的分断を一刻も早く終らせることは、日本の責務でもあります。

今年2023年は関東大震災から100年にあたリます。あの災害時に多くの朝鮮人が軍隊、警察、一般市民で組織された自警団などによって虐殺されました。しかしこの凄惨なジェノサイドを日本政府は未だに無視し続けており、実態は闇に包まれたままです。これはその後の侵略戦争の中で数百万人の朝鮮人を強制連行など行い、真っ先に犠牲としてきた蛮行に繁がっていきます。

私たちは今年、多くの日本の民主団体、労働組合、市民、議員と協力し「朝鮮人虐殺犠牲者追悼と責任追及の行動実行委員会」を結成し、様々な諸行動を進めてきました。日本の歴史, 文化の多くは朝鮮からもたらされたものであるにもかかわらず、現在の日本は「朝鮮半島危機」を煽り続け、本来行うべき平和への外交努力をまったく行わないまま軍事大国の道を突き進んでいます。あの歴史的な日朝ピョンヤン宣言を一方的に踏みにじってきた責任こそが問われるべきです。

いま世界は米国の強権的軍事的世界支配に異を公然と唱え, 民衆こそが社会の主人公として台頭する自主の思想に基づく新たな時代に入リつつあります。自民党政権の「戦争のできる国づくり」政策に抗し, 正義と人権・平和を希求する日本の各界人士や民主団体の皆さんと固く連帯, 連携し、自国の人民こそが第一とする世界の大きな自主の流れと共に歩もうではありませんか。朝鮮民主主義人民共和国創建75周年を祝し、一刻も早く朝鮮の自主的平和統一を実現するために！

水谷 研次
朝鮮平和統一支持アジア太平洋地域委員会 副委員長
朝鮮の自主的平和統一支持日本委員会 事務局長

Translation:

Let's join the great trend of self-reliance spreading all over the world

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Japan Committee, which supports the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea, issues an appeal of solidarity.

East Asia, including Korea, is currently experiencing an unprecedented level of tension. The United States has created a cruel and cruel war situation all over the world, and Japan, South Korea, and even NATO are following suit. In particular, Japan, without reflecting on or apologizing for its past wars of aggression and colonial rule, has continued to hate Koreans in Japan by arrogantly viewing Korea as an imaginary enemy, and continuing hate crimes against Koreans in Japan. This attitude has been severely criticized.

After World War II, the world made great strides and changes from the tyranny of imperialism through wars of national liberation. However, Korea is still the only country where the nation is still divided, and with the ceasefire, tensions that could lead to war at any moment continue, and peaceful reunification has not been achieved. It is also Japan's responsibility to end this tragic division that the Korean people are being forced into as soon as possible.

This year, 2023, marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake. During that disaster, many Koreans were massacred by the military, police, and vigilante groups made up of ordinary citizens. However, the Japanese government continues to ignore this horrific genocide, and the reality remains shrouded in darkness. In the ensuing war of aggression, forcibly kidnapping millions of Koreans, the barbaric act that was the first victim.

This year, in cooperation with many Japanese democratic organizations, labor unions, citizens, and lawmakers, we formed the ``Executive Committee for Commemoration and Accountability for Korean Massacre Victims,'' and have taken various actions. . Despite the fact that much of Japan's history and culture came from Korea, today's Japan continues to stir up the "Korean Peninsula Crisis" and has become a military superpower without making any diplomatic efforts to achieve peace as it should. is pushing forward. The responsibility for unilaterally trampling on that historic Japan-North Korea Pyongyang Declaration should be held accountable.

Today, the world is openly dissenting from the US's authoritarian military rule of the world, and we are entering a new era based on the idea of self-reliance, in which the people are the main protagonists of society. Against the Liberal Democratic Party government's policy of "building a country capable of war," we will work in solidarity and cooperation with people from all walks of life and democratic organizations in Japan who aspire to justice, human rights, and peace. Let us walk with the great flow of independence. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and to realize the independent and peaceful unification of Korea as soon as possible!

Kenji Mizutani
Vice Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee for the Peaceful Unification of Korea
Japan Committee for Supporting the Voluntary Peaceful Unification of Korea Secretary General