Civil organizations in Japan launched a nationwide organization for exchanges with North Korea called the "Japan-Korea Nationwide Network" on the 8th.
According to Kyodo News, this network is an organization connecting groups that have been engaged in private exchanges with North Korea in Japan, centered around the civic group "Forum for Peace, Human Rights, and Environment." A founding general meeting was held in Tokyo on the day.
The network set its main activity policies as normalization of diplomatic relations with North Korea, establishment of rights for Zainichi Koreans, and establishment of peace in Northeast Asia. It also pledged to work on resolving historical issues, abolishing discrimination against Korean schools in Japan, ending the Korean War, and concluding a peace agreement.
At the founding general meeting, Chosen Soren figures including Park Guho, the first vice chairman of Chosen Soren, attended, and a congratulatory message from the Korea-Japan Exchange Association under the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also introduced.
Kyodo News reported that the congratulatory message expressed "a common wish to live peacefully as neighboring countries" and "hope to write a new page in the friendship movement."
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