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KCNA urges U.S. to stop talking about human rights issues

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- U.S. President Bush in a "statement" on June 26 accused several countries including the DPRK of "human rights abuses." He made this unprecedented groundless mud-slinging at the DPRK after the U.S. State Department spread a sheer lie about human rights abuses in the DPRK through its "2002-2003 Report on Human Rights and Democracy" on June 24. This indicates that the Bush administration's psychological operation to isolate and stifle the DPRK has reached its zenith.
    This is part of various plots hatched by the U.S. to tarnish the dignified image of the political system in the DPRK and escalate the international pressure upon it. This is a serious interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.
    Article 67 and 68 of the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK stipulate that citizens are guaranteed freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of demonstration and of religion and all the popular masses are provided with independent rights, vital rights, rights of equality and development.
    There is no human rights issue in our system as the leader, the party and the masses are single-heartedly united and the whole country forms a harmonious whole.
    The U.S. is to blame for human rights abuses before any others.
    The U.S. is not qualified to talk about this issue.
    It is none other than the U.S. which killed so many innocent civilians and reduced cities and villages to debris in Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing the worst disasters to their people after provoking wars of aggression there under the signboard of "anti-terrorism" in a bid to meet its aims and interests.
    The U.S. is ridden with the worst racial discrimination and the most horrible crimes due to social conflict and class confrontation.
    According to official information released by the U.S. judicial authority, 265 people are being shot and 87 of them are left dead on a daily average and more than 1.3 million cases of such crimes of violence as rape, robbery and plunder are reported every year.
    Indiscriminate attacks are being made on members of other sects for the mere reason that they challenge the U.S. view on value.
    It is by no means fortuitous that amnesty international in an annual report issued last year on its 40th anniversary listed the U.S. as a stumbling block in the human rights performance in the world.
    The U.S. will not be able to escape international isolation and self-destruction if it keeps resorting to arbitrary and high-handed practices, hatching plots and seeking hegemony, while wantonly infringing upon the sovereignty of other countries under the hypocritical motto "protection of human rights."