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U.S. Style Human Rights Standards under Fire

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The United States issues an "annual report on human rights" every year in which it lets loose all sorts of vituperation against the DPRK and many other countries over "human rights record." In this regard Rodong Sinmun Thursday says in a signed article: The U.S. style human rights standards can never be generally accepted. These standards are so ridiculous that when the opponents to the regime in any country are allowed to conduct undisguised legal activities against their government and social system America considers that human rights are respected there. This, in essence, is aimed at overthrowing the system in the countries falling out of the U.S. favor and this, therefore, has nothing to do with genuine human rights. The concept on human rights based on the American view on value can never be acceptable to other countries.
    These American standards can never be generally accepted because the United States has the poorest human rights record. The article cites concrete facts to prove that the U.S. is the world's worst abuser of human rights and a tundra of human rights.
    Recalling that the Amnesty International put the United States on top of the list of the worst violators of the five major human rights in the world, the article goes on:
    It is a mockery and a challenge to genuine human rights and democracy that the U.S. cited "human rights record" in various countries, shutting its eyes to this hard fact, and tried to impose the American model of human rights upon the world.
    If the U.S. style human rights standards are generally accepted, the world will turn into a lawless and dark one without human rights.
    It is ridiculous and brazen-faced for the U.S. to kick off such a fuss pulling up other countries over human rights issues, behaving as if it were "a human rights judge."
    The U.S. application of its double dealing human rights standards finds its manifestation in the fact that while keeping mum about human rights abuses by those pro-American forces and allies of the U.S., it is desperately pulling up those countries falling out of its favor over absurd "human rights issues" and using them as pretexts for interfering in their internal affairs and pressurizing them. It even seeks to bring down their social systems.
    This evil practice of the U.S. only triggers off a vicious cycle of confrontation and antagonism.