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DPRK FM Spokesman Refutes U.S. "Report on Human Rights and Democracy"

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave an answer to a question put by KCNA Friday as regards the U.S. recent release of a "report on human rights and democracy" in which it again slandered the DPRK. He said:
    The U.S. Department of State in its "report on human rights and democracy" issued on May 17 absurdly asserted that the human rights issue in the DPRK has become an object of international debate and it is being taken up by the six-party talks, assessing as it pleased the human rights situation in at least 100 countries and regions.
    It admits of no argument that the U.S. far-fetched assertion was prompted by a sinister political aim to force the DPRK to change its inviolable socialist system.
    The U.S. is pressurizing the DPRK to accept the CVID as regards the nuclear issue and taking pains to egg its allies on to lay a siege to the DPRK under the pretexts of "human rights" and "democracy."
    GIs' maltreatment of Iraqi prisoners that shocked and infuriated the international community brought to light the hypocritical nature of the U.S. as the world's biggest violator of human rights and a graveyard of human rights.
    It is the view of the fair public opinion that the U.S. has neither qualification nor moral right to talk about "human rights" or "democracy."
    Yet, the U.S. is impudent enough to pull up not a few countries over their human rights performance or democracy, unaware of how other countries paint it. This only glaringly reveals the shameless nature of the Bush group.
    No smear campaign on the part of the U.S. can ever shake Korean-style socialism centered on the popular masses under which the leader, the Party and the people are single-heartedly united.
    The situation in Iraq where confusion, disorder, bloodshed and violence are rampant due to the U.S. aggression and wanton interference and tragic happenings in various other countries prove with added clarity that human rights precisely mean sovereignty and the loss of sovereignty leads to contempt, disgrace and humiliation.
    The DPRK will as ever protect as the apple of the eye the inviolable Korean-style socialism, the Korean people's choice and life and soul, and never allow anyone to vilify it.