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KCNA Refutes U.S. Talk about Human Rights and Democracy

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- The U.S. State Department reportedly issued a "report on human rights and democracy" on May 17 in which it talked about "humanitarianism in crisis in north Korea" and "serious concern about its human rights record." This is a revelation of the U.S. sinister attempt to increase pressure on the DPRK in a bid to deter it from developing the relations with those countries which are friendly toward it and lay an "international siege" to it and thus isolate and stifle it at any cost. Explicitly speaking, there exists no "human rights issue" in the DPRK claimed by the U.S.
    The DPRK is a man-centred socialist society in which the working people are leading an independent and creative life, fully exercising the genuine freedom and right as masters of everything. The Korean people regard socialism as their life and soul and absolutely trust and protect it.
    What should not be overlooked is the fact that the Bush administration seldom misses a chance to spread misinformation about "human rights issue" in the DPRK and is getting more vociferous about it these days than ever before.
    The International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives at its hearing on "human rights situation in north Korea and the issue of its defectors" on April 28 recommended the administration to focus international attention on this issue. Later U.S. politicians instigated the U.N. Commission on Human Rights to adopt a resolution calling for mounting a human rights offensive against the DPRK.
    The U.S. is escalating such human rights offensive against the DPRK at a time when its policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK under the pretext of the "nuclear issue" has proved futile. This smear campaign is, therefore, aimed to tarnish the international image of the DPRK over its "human rights issue" and divert the unbiased world opinion critical of GIs' abuses of Iraqi detainees to the DPRK. At Iraqi prisons GIs undressed male and female prisoners and resorted to all sorts of indecent practices. They let loose dogs to bite Iraqis and even killed them in cold blood. The atrocities committed by GIs are unheard-of human rights abuses which can never be justified. They are a violation of the world conventions on the treatment of POWs, a wanton breach of morality and a total negation of Islamic ethics and culture.
    The U.S. is keeping 9,000 persons behind bars overseas and resorting to all sorts of maltreatment. This clearly indicates how seriously it is violating human rights worldwide.
    The reality goes to evidently prove that the U.S. is, indeed, the world's worst violator of human rights and a graveyard of human rights and that the U.S.-loudmouthed "democracy" and "human rights" are no more than hypocrisy.
    The U.S. administration is working hard to isolate and stifle the DPRK under the pretext of the "human rights issue," behaving as if it were a "human rights judge", despite strong the world public criticism of its human rights abuses. Its hostile policy toward the DPRK is, however, bound to go totally bankrupt.