Nuclear weapon, launched on the Daepodong Missile from N.K., will hit a couple who are dating in Tokyo city." This is a report on N.K. on Fuji TV. Such sensational, but coarse-simulated images are always on Japanese TV. Overflowing reports, and books about the N.K. kidnapping and supposed possibility of war are making Japanese into Chosun-killer. This Japanese, who seems to be a ultraconservative, set a time bomb in a Chongryon office, shoot a gun to an office shutter, and cut Chochongryon school students' skirts. Chosun people residing in Japan suffer from distinction and suppression. Who cares about them? Can they keep their national pride in Japan? It looks very dark until now, the situation that the Korea is divided into two pieces, North and South.

Prejudice still exists
Koreans in Japan are divided in three groups with their nationality; Korean, Japanese, and Chosun. Problems occurs on Chosun nationality, because currently the country Chosun does not exist. Chosun nationality people are about 100,000, and most of them are waiting for the reunification of S.K. and N.K. Many of them, but not all of them, belongs to Chochongryun, which means Chosun people's union. The union has accomplished successive support to N.K. for many years, but it lost its influence nowadays because of financial difficulties and generation shift. On the other hand, people with Korean nationality usually belong to Mindan. But these standards are not always correct, and the meanings of their nationality have changed a lot these days. Korean-Japanese people suffer from the ideological prejudice that was created during the cold war.

Repeated tyranny of media
Newspapers and TV make new suspicions about N.K. everyday. By promoted insecurity, the anxiety of Japanese becomes exclusivity and it is then aimed to the Korean who have Chosun nationality. Because Chosun nationality is usually regarded as N.K. nationality. But that is not true, since many Chosun people are not N.K. supporters. They just did not chose their nationality.
The main item for attacking N.K. is the kidnapping and nuclear weapon. The kidnapping issue has been in spotlight after N.K. has admitted that they have kidnapped 11 people from Japan on September 17 last year, during N.K.-Japan summit conference. Rightly it was a big mistake of N.K., although they have apologized and acknowledged their false. But the attitude that the Japanese media maintains over a year after the admission is truly odd. Every main TV news programs broadcast over 10 minutes about N.K., such as Japanese wives living in N.K. and North Korean escapers' present condition. Some follow-up programs make documentaries about N.K. menace that is full of speculative sources and false report.
These social atmosphere of Japan recall the memory of the Kwandong holocaust in 1923. 80 years have passed, but no Japanese broadcast system try to document the tragedy. In 1923, over 6,000 Chosun people have been killed by the Japanese, who trusted the media. After the slaughter, Japanese authority tried to cover up the tragedy.

Korean ignoring compatriots
When Chosun nationality compatriots try to visit Korea, they are first rejected by consul's blunt answer such as "We are not reunified yet.", "Why are you going to Korea without changing your nationality?", "I'll let you visit Korea this time, but never again without your nationality changed.", even constitutional rights allow their travel to Korea. These rejection came in evidence of some presented petitions to the government last year, when our compatriots came to Korea with Korean International Network (KIN). Jo Kyung-hee, who is third generation of Chosun nationality and now studying in Seoul, wrote about her feelings in her essay after participation of the event. "I know that I cannot deny the fact of partition of the Korean peninsula. However Chosun nationality must be concerned with historical issue, not as a problem of individual ideology." Actually, Korean authority never issued any statement about Japanese terror to Chochongryun.
How about Mindan, another Korean group in Japan? As a matter of fact, Mindan and Chochongryun has a deep antipathy to each other by different ideology. Mindan appealed their strong ill feelings to the Chochongryun, on the September 2 statement. Mindan headquarters said, "Chongryun is trying to justify N.K. nuclear development and kidnapping. N.K. must understand that the present tension is made by themselves." There was no point out about Japanese suppression to the Korean.

Struggle to restore the identity
The reason that Chosun people keep their nationality is that they are trying not to lose the identity of their ancestors. So the identity problem of Chosun nationality is not just Chosun people's matter, but every Korean's inevitable task. Korean authority, and even Japanese authority must be concerned on this matter, and think about the way to stabilize Japanese compatriots' society.
It is optimistic that there are many small movements that make efforts to make the situation better. For instance, there was a joint symposium between Korea-Japan about N.K. nuclear matter. NGO do a lot too. KIN is the typical organization that makes a lot of efforts to make better understanding about people who are living in Japan with Chosun nationality. The organization is going to promote the third Chosun people's visiting to Seoul in November. The event will lower the difficulty of Korean compatriots' entrance into Korea, and change the view to Chosun people.
Few generations have changed after the division of Korea. Now ideological complication structure have changed a lot. There are no more reasons for the existance of such quarrel between Chochongryun and Mindan, also between N.K. and Korea. Just more effort to the unification of each other is needed. Authorities, every member of each nations, and even the press of each country should understand the historical identity of Chosun nationality people in Japan and be concern about it.