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U.S. President's statement on human rights refuted

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 4 (KCNA) -- U.S. President Bush in a recent statement accused a number of countries including the DPRK of "violating" human rights, asserting that the U.S. is committed to build a world in which human rights are respected and protected by laws. In this regard Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary says:
    No people in the world fully enjoy true human rights as the Korean people do under the man-centered socialist system of Korean style, where the popular masses have become genuine masters of the country and everything in the society is made to serve them.
    The U.S. in its recent "report on 2002-2003 human rights and democracy" referred to "humanitarian crisis in North Korea" and "concerns," urging other countries to raise improvement of the human rights record as a condition for establishing any relations with North Korea.
    This is just part of the U.S. anti-DPRK psychological warfare to tarnish the image of the DPRK and lay an "international siege" to it and the U.S. policy to stifle it.
    As far as the human rights issue is concerned, the U.S. tops the world list of human rights abuses. People's right to existence and inviolability are always threatened and infringed upon in the American society where gun-related murders are hourly occurrences and all sorts of crimes are rampant.
    The number of prisoners in the U.S. is equivalent to a quarter of the total number of prisoners of the world. More than 2 million toiling people are exposed to threats of violence in their workplaces and over 1.8 million labourers are injured in their workshops on a yearly average. The U.S. has also the worst record of racial discrimination in the world.
    The U.S. is citing the DPRK's "human rights issue" to woo those countries, which wish to normalize relations and develop good-neighborly and friendly relations with the dignified DPRK, to put up such unreasonable demand as "demand for better human rights record" in a bid to plug them into the moves to execute its policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK. But this is futile.