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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea condemned the Japanese government on Monday for what it called a crackdown on expatriate North Koreans amid concerns the group may have a role in the communist state's nuclear and chemical weapons program.
The condemnation of the Chongryon — the residents' group of North Koreans living in Japan — comes amid a Japanese crackdown on illegal trade with North Korea, following the North's missile launches in July and its nuclear test in October.
In August, Japanese police arrested a pro-North Korean resident in Japan for allegedly exporting machinery to the North that could be used to make biological weapons.
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