KCNA Ridicules U.S. "Advise" over "Human Rights Issue"
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The United States is busy spreading rumors about a step taken recently by the DPRK not to receive international humanitarian aid in a bid to cater to its political taste. The "Committee on North Korean Human Rights", a non-governmental human rights organization of the U.S. invited official and unofficial political figures to a seminar in Washington on September 26 to slander the system in the DPRK, claiming that the food shortage there should be viewed in linkage with "the absence of elementary human rights."
The theme of the seminar "starvation and human rights" itself was intended to hurl mud at the DPRK as it was attended by representatives from such institutions of the administration as the U.S. Department of State and the Agency of International Development and institutes and NGOs exerting influence on the government's policy making including Brookings Institute. There is, therefore, no worth considering what was discussed at the seminar. What merits attention is that the seminar was ostensively aimed at the "separation of politics and humanitarianism" but, in actuality, it totally helped the U.S. implement its policy of using food aid as a lever for pressuring the DPRK. This only revealed the vulgarity and double-dealing tactics of the U.S. conservative politicians.
As already officially notified to the UN and international organizations, the DPRK decided to conclude the international humanitarian aid as the humanitarian situation has remarkably improved in the country.
There is no need for others to say this or that about the DPRK's step.
Whether to receive humanitarian aid or not is a matter to be decided by the DPRK, the master. It is an issue pertaining to its sovereign right. For anyone to take issue with this matter is little short of interfering in the internal affairs of other country to serve his ulterior purpose. This is, at the same time, as bad an act as defiling the sincere efforts of international organizations and various countries for humanitarian aid. The U.S. slandered the system in the DPRK, deliberately linking humanitarian aid with "human rights". This self-exposes that it has used humanitarian aid for its sinister political purpose such as an aim to "bring down the system" in the DPRK.
It is well known that the U.S. has used the "human rights issue" as well as the nuclear issue as main leverage for escalating tensions and isolating and stifling the DPRK.
The U.S. advise given to someone over "human rights issue" can convince no one.
Such problems as "weapons of mass destruction" and "starvation" are products of the military threat and economic blockade imposed by the U.S. upon the DPRK for more than half a century, pursuant to its hostile policy toward the country.
The DPRK has a way to overcome its difficulties as they are temporary and its people are making big successes in the course of surmounting them. There is nothing insurmountable for the DPRK as long as there is a system chosen by its people and a solid independent economic foundation and strong potential built up for several decades with much efforts.
Opposing this or that issue against other issues in a bid to slander the political system and way of life in other country is a human rights abuse. Explicitly speaking once again, human rights represent state sovereignty.
This reality teaches a lesson that it is a delusion to expect human rights apart from state sovereignty and protect them without the use of force and there is no genuine solution to the "human rights issue" unless the U.S. makes a switchover in its policy to use the "human rights issue" as an all-powerful lever for interfering in the internal affairs of other country and overturning its system.
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