U.S. Smear Campaign over "Religious Situation" of DPRK Refuted
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK
Pyongyang, September 18 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Department of State, in an "annual report on international religious freedom" released on Wednesday, made oft-repeated accusation that the DPRK seriously abridges religious freedom and represses religious organizations.
Timed to coincide with this, officials of the Department of State, including Powell, came out one after another to groundlessly take issue with the DPRK over the "religious situation".
A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry, in an answer to a question put by KCNA today in this regard, said: The DPRK strongly rejects such U.S. accusation over the "religious issue" made on the basis of lies and fabrications as this is no more than a sinister trick to tarnish the international image of the DPRK and escalate the moves for international "isolation and blockade" against it.
If the United States is truly interested in the religious issue, it is important for her to have a proper yardstick, he said, and went on:
The U.S. has asserted that "religious freedom is ensured in Iraq" upon which the former seeks to impose "American-style democracy" after invading it by force of arms.
If that is true, how can the U.S. interpret the following world comment on the situation in Iraq plagued with the worst chaos, disorder and bloodshed under the U.S. forces' occupation? The "U.S. has opened the Pandora's box. A door to hell is open in Iraq."
The hostile policy pursued by the Bush administration toward the DPRK prompted by its implacable rejection of the latter's political system only reinforces the DPRK's conviction that the toughest counteraction is the only recipe for the U.S.
It is as foolish an act as trying to sweep the sea with a broom for the U.S. to hurt man-centered Korean-style socialism.
The Korean people's perfect unity will grow stronger no matter what the U.S. may cry out.
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