FM Spokesman Castigates U.S. for Pulling up DPRK over Religion and Drug Issues
KCNA
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry today gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA as regards the fact that the U.S. pulled up the DPRK again over religion and drug issues:
On December 18 the U.S. State Department in its "annual report on international religious freedom" listed the DPRK and other countries as nations of special concern as if it were a world religious judge. On December 19 the U.S. Congressional Research Service issued a report on drug trafficking in which it said effective measures for blockade of the DPRK drug trafficking should be taken.
The U.S. stereotyped jargon about the fictitious suppression of religion and drug trafficking in the DPRK is a political burlesque which is not worth serious discussion as it is part of the U.S. mean anti-DPRK smear campaign to tarnish the image of the DPRK and justify international "isolation and blockade" against it at any cost.
The U.S. is persistently conducting the anti-DPRK smear campaign, talking about dialogue without any precondition, which clearly proves that the U.S. policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK internationally remains unchanged.
During the last Korean war the U.S. troops dropped bombs on churches in the DPRK and destroyed all of them and mercilessly killed tens of thousands of church-goers. This was the most tragic incident recorded in the religious activities in the DPRK.
Such being the case, the U.S. is now talking about the lack of "religious freedom" in the DPRK. This is a height of folly.
It is known to the world that freedom of religious belief is fully guaranteed by law in the DPRK and struggle against such crimes against humanity as drug trafficking is being intensified.
The U.S. is completely mistaken if it thinks that the DPRK will be frightened by such third-rate reports.
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