Written on May 2, 2019, this essay sharply criticizes the outflow of technology to North Korea through the Association of Korean Scientists and Engineers in Japan, the connections between Chongryon-linked organizations and Japanese universities, research institutes, and corporations, and the lack of security awareness within Japan.
Referring to reporting by the Sankei Shimbun and writings by Tsutomu Nishioka, it denounces both the background of the re-entry ban on nuclear and missile engineers and the grave extent of infiltration activities within Japanese society.

2019-05-02
It truly is the pitiful reality of a paradise for spies beyond anything imaginable.
It would not be the slightest exaggeration to say that every employee of the Asahi Shimbun is an Ozaki Hotsumi now existing there.

This is a chapter I published on 2017-04-26 under the title, “Because until August three years ago I had not been reading the Sankei Shimbun, I knew absolutely nothing of this fact in 2007.”
I received a follow from a man who is a singer-songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee.
When I searched for the chapter, “What the academic world should be making an issue of is that the person who has played an important role in North Korea’s nuclear development is a professor
(I believe a Zainichi Korean)
belonging to Kyoto University’s nuclear-related department…,” in order to confirm the essay I published yesterday, the following article came up.
Because until August three years ago I had not been reading the Sankei Shimbun, I knew absolutely nothing of this fact in 2007.
All readers of the Asahi Shimbun will, like me, be stunned.
At the same time, this proves completely correct my own essay on the condition of the Asahi Shimbun, namely that an elite of Chongryon with this kind of background
(a graduate of Chongryon elementary, middle, and high schools who also graduated from Peking University)
serves as foreign news desk editor at TV Asahi.
It truly is the pitiful reality of a paradise for spies beyond anything imaginable.
It would not be the slightest exaggeration to say that every employee of the Asahi Shimbun is an Ozaki Hotsumi now existing there.

“Japan Is in Danger” Part 1: The Invisible Enemy (6),
The Kakyō steals brains and technology
(Sankei Shimbun, 2007/07/21).
A 13-story building stands heavily along Hakusan-dori in Hakusan, Bunkyō Ward, Tokyo.
On the rooftop rises a gigantic shortwave antenna.
On the sixth floor of that building, which houses many organizations under Chongryon, is the headquarters of the “Association of Korean Scientists and Engineers in Japan”
(Kakyō).
When a photographer from this newspaper tried to take a picture, a man immediately came out from the building and pressed him, asking, “For what purpose are you taking that?”

It was in March 1999, at the “National Congress of Scientists and Technicians” held in the People’s Culture Palace, that several executives of this Kakyō were greeted with thunderous applause in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
At the end of August the previous year, North Korea launched the medium-range ballistic missile “Taepodong-1,” which flew over Japanese airspace and landed off Sanriku.
Standing on the podium, Workers’ Party Secretary Choe Tae-bok declared, “With our own technology, we successfully launched the artificial satellite ‘Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1’ for the first time,” and then praised the Kakyō delegation led by Chairman Shin Jae-gyun
(at the time)
as follows.
“The Korean scientists and engineers in Japan have vigorously developed patriotic activities for the rich and powerful development of the socialist fatherland and the unification of the homeland, deeply engraved in their hearts the honor of becoming citizens of Juche Korea, and greatly contributed together with the scientists and engineers of the homeland to economic construction.”
A Workers’ Party leader thus acknowledged that the success of the launch of the ballistic missile called “Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1,” which shook the Japanese people, was the fruit of Kakyō’s “patriotic activities.”

In fact, the activities of this organization, called “Kāgī” by Chongryon-related people, had been shrouded in secrecy.
It was in October the year before last, when the Public Security Bureau of the Metropolitan Police first searched Kakyō headquarters in the pharmaceutical affairs law violation case involving Kakyō executives, that this veil was stripped away.
From the seized materials, astonishing realities came to light.
First, it was learned that Kakyō was under the direct control of the External Liaison Department, an operational organ of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and had been instructed to conduct joint research with institutions such as the State Academy of Sciences, an organ of the North Korean cabinet.
The External Liaison Department’s instruction sheet to Kakyō read, “Science and technology are the pillar that makes the fatherland a strong and prosperous great power.”
“Strong and prosperous great power” was General Secretary Kim Jong-il’s national goal, a slogan aimed at great-power status in military and technological fields.
Concretely speaking, Kakyō was being asked to contribute to the improvement of nuclear and missile technology.
The emphasis in the text is mine.

The State Academy of Sciences, with which Kakyō was conducting joint research, was once reported by a South Korean newspaper to have been identified by the United States to South Korea as a likely uranium enrichment facility.
Kakyō can be called a procurement organization for materials used in the development of weapons of mass destruction
(WMD),
including nuclear weapons.

Company A, headquartered in Aichi Prefecture, is a maker of special steel indispensable to missile and nuclear development.
It is known for the development of weight reduction in engine parts and transmission parts.
About ten years ago, North Korea requested to dispatch an inspection mission to Company A, but Company A is said to have refused.
However, North Korea remained obsessed with weight-reduction technology, and public security authorities say that Kakyō-related persons have apparently been targeting and approaching retirees from Company A and similar firms.

The External Liaison Department, Kakyō’s superior organization, is also the affiliation of the operative involved in the abduction of Keiko Arimoto.
Can it not be said that infiltration activities continue where they cannot be seen.
(Keiichi Takagi, Hiroshi Kawase)

Researchers indifferent to “the North.”
Another astonishing reality of Kakyō is the breadth of its network.
What the Metropolitan Police seized was a roster of just under 1,200 Kakyō members across 12 branches nationwide.
Among them, the list of about 300 executive-level members was relatively detailed, and in addition to Korean University, the names of Japan’s former imperial universities were listed in their educational backgrounds.
As places of employment, there were the names of multiple national universities, independent administrative research institutes, major electronics makers, and major heavy industries representing Japan.
Experts in fields such as engineering, chemistry, and agriculture were gathered there, and there were also members in fields that could be diverted to military technology.
The problem is that through this Kakyō network, Japan’s advanced technology and knowledge have been leaking continuously to North Korea.
The emphasis in the text and the passages between asterisks are mine.

In June 2003, the Metropolitan Police searched the machinery maker “Seishin Enterprise” on suspicion of illegally exporting to Iran and elsewhere a jet mill, an ultrafine pulverizer that could be diverted to the development of solid missile fuel.
Those who watched NHK News last night, upon hearing of this “jet mill,” an ultrafine pulverizer that could be diverted to the development of solid missile fuel, should understand for the first time, just as I did, that so that was what it meant.
But the problem is that NHK conveyed absolutely nothing of this fact.
Of course, compared with TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station, which naturally says nothing about such matters
(since it is an organization that places an elite of Chongryon at the foreign news desk),
NHK may be far better, but it is still undeniably true that they too have infiltrated NHK’s interior.
It also became clear that a former Kakyō executive was involved in illegally exporting the jet mill to the North.

One month before that, in May, a hearing on North Korea’s weapons exports was held in a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
A former engineer who had been involved in North Korea’s ballistic missile development and defected in 1997, the year before the Taepodong-1 launch, testified that “90% of missile components were imported from Japan.
They were transported every three months aboard the Mangyongbong through Chongryon.”
In the seized documents as well, there was a note that when Kakyō’s executive-level members visited the homeland aboard the Mangyongbong, North Korean researchers they contacted requested specific technical information necessary for research.
Furthermore, documents were found suggesting procurement instructions from the “Second Committee,” a body directly under the Workers’ Party’s munitions industry, and even documents directly ordering, “When you return to the homeland next time, bring back materials on ○○.”
The problem is that Kakyō, seen by public security officials as “an industrial espionage operation group supporting North Korea’s military,” is directly and indirectly drawing in Japanese scientists.

Kakyō’s first chairman, Mr. Ri Sigyu, went from Kyoto University to Osaka University graduate school and studied atomic physics under Dr. Kōji Fushimi, Japan’s leading authority in nuclear research.
According to public security officials, Ri invited the late Hideo Itokawa, the authority on space engineering and an emeritus professor of the University of Tokyo, to North Korea in 1986, and Dr. Fushimi in 1987.
In the January 2001 issue of the monthly Japan no Shinro, Dr. Fushimi wrote things such as, “People from the North are now active here within Japan.
Those people frequently travel back and forth to their homeland.
And yet, even now, half a century later, why have diplomatic relations still not been restored.”
Public security officials point out that Kakyō-related persons skillfully approached Japanese researchers at national universities and elsewhere and absorbed Japan’s advanced technology.

This June, North Korea launched three short-range ballistic missiles.
All are said to have used solid fuel.
It cannot be said that the jet mill illegally exported by a Japanese company played no role.
Missiles using solid fuel possess vastly greater mobility than liquid-fuel missiles.
They can be loaded onto a truck bed and launched freely at any time.
Detection becomes incomparably more difficult.
If diverted into missiles aimed at Japan, they become a grave threat to Japan’s peace and security.
Japanese people themselves, indifferent to the threat, are in effect drawing a bow against their own homeland.
The passages between asterisks are mine.

Tsutomu Nishioka, Planning Committee Member, National Institute for Japanese Interests Foundation, and Professor at Tokyo Christian University.
On February 10, the Japanese government announced the activation of its own independent sanctions against North Korea.
The sanctions comprise 10 items: restrictions on human movement
(7 items),
the principle prohibition of remittances, a ban on the entry of North Korean-flagged ships and third-country ships that have called at North Korea, and an expansion of the persons subject to asset freezes.
Among these, in the area of movement restrictions, the scope of denial of re-entry to Chongryon executives and others traveling to North Korea was expanded.
What drew attention was that newly added was the “prohibition of re-entry for resident foreign nuclear and missile engineers whose travel destination is North Korea.”
Until now, many experts including myself have argued that researchers at universities and companies belonging to the Association of Korean Scientists and Engineers in Japan
(Kakyō),
which is under Chongryon, have been taking nuclear and missile technology out to North Korea under the direction of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and therefore their travel to North Korea should be stopped.
At last, that has entered the sanctions list.
However, it was not made public exactly who had been included in those denied permission.

Five resident engineers subject to re-entry ban.
Recently, I obtained a list of 22 persons denied re-entry permission.
According to it, five people were targeted as “nuclear and missile engineers.”
The media have not reported their names, but since the National Institute has already denounced three of them
(the following ① through ③)
in its May 2009 policy proposal, I will write here the real names of all five.
Those five are ① Sŏ Sŏkhong ② Sŏ Handō ③ Pyŏn Chŏrho ④ Ri Eitoku ⑤ Ryō Tokuji.
① and ② are authorities on engines who had experience working at the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo, and are said to have established the “Kongō Engine Joint Venture Company” in North Korea, with ① as president and ② as vice president, and to have developed missile engines there.
③ majored in nuclear power at Kyoto University and even now serves as associate professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute.
Advanced technology developed at a national university with taxpayer money is being used in North Korea’s nuclear missile development.

Punish the removal of general-purpose technology.
All five of these are members of Kakyō.
With the slogan, “Science has no borders, but scientists have a homeland,” Kakyō is taking out large quantities of advanced technology from Japan’s national universities and elsewhere that contribute to North Korea’s military.
In the above policy proposal issued in response to the second nuclear test, the National Institute had already argued that “a full sanctions regime stopping goods, money, and people all together should be activated.
In particular, travel to North Korea by all resident Koreans in Japan should in principle be prohibited so that technology leakage can be stopped.”
Engineers other than these five can still freely move between North Korea and Japan.
The denial of re-entry should be expanded to all resident Koreans in Japan, and that should be stopped immediately.
Moreover, since the act itself of taking nuclear and missile technology out to a hostile state such as North Korea is not illegal under current law, the five cannot be arrested on that charge.
A new legal framework capable of cracking down on this should be created without delay. (End.)

This too is an article proving the correctness of my essay on the truth behind why the opposition parties, and the Asahi Shimbun and others, where so many Ozaki Hotsumis now exist, persistently cry absolute opposition to the conspiracy law.
The emphasis in the text is mine.

Sŏ Sŏkhong… Korean nationality.
Born in 1932.
Japanese name: Sumitomo Seitarō.
After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, he researched internal combustion engines at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, and obtained a doctorate in engineering.
A world authority on two-stroke engines, he received the “American Society of Power Machinery Award” jointly with the later-mentioned Sŏ Handō in the mid-1980s.
He made full use of this technology in the military development of his homeland, North Korea.
The Japan-North Korea joint venture in Wonsan, North Korea, where he served as president, the “Kongō Engine Joint Venture Company,” is outwardly a manufacturer of engines for agricultural machinery, but in fact a plant producing missiles and engines.
Moreover, in 2006 Sŏ was cracked down on by Kanagawa Prefectural Police for operating a labor dispatch business without authorization.
The place to which he dispatched workers was a subsidiary of a major electrical manufacturer, and prefectural police viewed the purpose as transmitting that company’s motor manufacturing technology to the North.

② Sŏ Handō… Korean nationality.
Born in 1942.
Though not related by blood to Sŏ Sŏkhong, after graduating from Hiroshima University he too worked at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, just like Sŏkhong.
His specialty was likewise two-stroke engines.
He received the American Society of Power Machinery Award together with Sŏkhong.
In 1993, he was awarded the “Republic Doctorate” by North Korea.
He also once held the post of vice president at the Kongō Engine Joint Venture Company where Sŏkhong served as president.
He seems to have visited North Korea multiple times in line with North Korea’s missile tests.
Media and public security officials call these two the “Sŏ brothers.”

③ Ri Eitoku… South Korean nationality.
Born in 1979.
Graduated from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Saitama University.
He specialized in physics in graduate school at Tokyo Metropolitan University
(now Tokyo Metropolitan University under a different Japanese naming stage in the original).
After serving as a researcher at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization and at Osaka University graduate school, he joined a Hitachi-affiliated private company.
What deserves attention is that Ri had been at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba.
This is a research institution handling some of the most advanced technology in Japan’s field of physics.
When he entered Tokyo Metropolitan University graduate school, he left the following comment on a Chongryon-linked website.
“In graduate school, I want to conduct world-level research and use its成果 for the prosperity of the unified homeland.”
Furthermore, regarding the present re-entry ban, he claims, “The last time I went to North Korea was on a high school school trip; this is a case of mistaken identity.”
This is probably a claim demonstrating the true ability of the country of “plausible lies.”

Sŏ Sŏkhong and Sŏ Handō are suspected of having contributed to North Korea’s missile manufacturing technology, and the remaining three to the North’s nuclear development.

④ Ryō Tokuji… Korean nationality.
Born in 1940.
Former researcher at the “Nagoya University Plasma Research Institute”
(now the National Institute for Fusion Science).
At present he operates, from his home in Tokyo, a business involving development work on power generation systems using plasma and natural energy.

And the fifth person is Associate Professor Pyŏn Chŏrho, who appeared at the beginning.
In other words, Sŏ Sŏkhong and Sŏ Handō are suspected of having contributed to North Korea’s missile manufacturing technology, and the remaining three to the North’s nuclear development.
And what should especially be noted is that all five belong to the “Association of Korean Scientists and Engineers in Japan”
(Kakyō).
This organization is under Chongryon and is made up of about 1,200 Korean and South Korean scientists, engineers, and doctors resident in Japan.
Outwardly it is merely a friendship group, but according to Japanese public security officials, it is directly under the Workers’ Party of Korea’s operational organ, the External Liaison Department, and is regarded as a spy group that has supported North Korea’s nuclear missile development.
As proof of this, the above-mentioned Nishioka wrote the following in the May 2016 issue of Sound Argument.
“In October 2005, when the Metropolitan Police arrested vice chairman and others of Kakyō on suspicion of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, a house search revealed that 자료 on the Ground-to-Air Missile
(SAM)
of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force had leaked from the Defense Agency to Kakyō.”
Also, in the special committee session of the House of Representatives held on May 12 last year, Haruki Sugiyama, Deputy Director-General of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, answered Representative Jin Matsubara’s question as follows.
“Claims that ‘persons related to Kakyō are involved in North Korea’s nuclear and missile development’ have thus far been made in reporting and elsewhere, and the Public Security Intelligence Agency is proceeding with its investigation with grave interest.”
Incidentally, the slogan of the scientists belonging to Kakyō is, “Science has no borders.
But scientists have a homeland.”