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KCNA Refutes U.S. Anti-DPRK Human Rights Racket

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

    Pyongyang, October 29 (KCNA) -- The U.S. hard-line conservative forces have become more vociferous about the so-called "human rights issue" in the DPRK. At least 30 representatives from conservative political parties, Congress, religious bodies and human rights organizations had a meeting in Washington on Oct. 19 at which they made public a draft principle and recommendation regarding the human rights policy toward the DPRK. The document urged the U.S. administration and the international community to blend a security proposal including the nuclear issue with a human rights proposal when pursuing its policy towards the DPRK and underscored the need not to overlook the human rights issue in north Korea at the 5th six-party talks.
    This is part of the campaign to pressurize the DPRK and an extension of its political farce against it.
    As already known, the U.S. vicious attempt to increase the international pressure upon the DPRK over the nuclear issue has been frustrated. This compelled the U.S. to use the non-existent human rights issue as a means for putting pressure upon the DPRK.
    The ulterior aim sought by the U.S. is to politicize and internationalize the human rights issue and pull down the dignified political system in the DPRK at any cost.
    No matter to what the U.S. resorts its ambition for a regime change in the DPRK is nothing but a daydream.
    The system and political regime in the DPRK are the most popular and democratic system chosen and built by the Koreans themselves. Therefore, the Koreans regard their system and regime as their life and soul and are ready to defend them at any cost.
    The U.S. will never be able to understand the system and political regime in the DPRK as long as it insists on its wrong view on value and biased standards concerning human rights and democracy.
    What matters is that such behavior of the U.S. is little short of upsetting the common understanding reached by the countries concerned at the last six-party talks.
    The basic spirit of the joint statement of the talks is mutual respect and peaceful co-existence.
    The pressure campaign launched by the U.S. under the groundless pretexts of "human rights abuse" and "illegal trafficking" defying this spirit is little short of annulling the statement.
    Such practice on the part of the U.S. on the eve of the 5th six-party talks self-proves that its hostile policy toward the DPRK and its ambition to stifle it remain unchanged and this has become pronounced with the passage of time.
    The U.S. escalated moves to pressurize the DPRK would only push the showdown between the DPRK and the U.S. to an extreme pitch of tension and hamstring the process for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. had better understand the serious consequences to be entailed by its breach of the spirit of the joint statement and behave itself.