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DPRK Foreign Ministry Denounces U.S. Anti-DPRK "Human Rights" Racket

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

    Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in a statement issued Monday blasted the frantic anti-DPRK "human rights" racket kicked up under the U.S. supervision. The U.S. instigated its allies to railroad the anti-DPRK "human rights resolution" through the Third Committee of the 60th UN General Assembly this year and recently brought together riff-raffs in Seoul to stage such farce as the "international conference on north Korean human rights performance," the statement said, and went on:
    The U.S. plans to stage a similar farce in Brussels next year.
    It can not but be a tragedy in the 21st century for the U.S. to talk about human rights as it has the world's poorest human rights record and is an empire of evil.
    The U.S. occupied a sovereign state by force in broad daylight under the pretext of combating the "spread of weapons of mass destruction" in utter defiance of the UN and the system of international law. It advocated the defence of "human rights" in a sea of blood shed by Iraqis.
    The Bush administration openly asserted that the Geneva Convention strictly restricting interrogation methods falls behind the times. It did not hesitate to perpetrate medieval torture which would make even brutes blush after issuing even the official directive to the effect that it approves a modification of the understanding of the Geneva Convention and more strict interrogation methods.
    The U.S. is a typical criminal state which politicizes the human rights issue and applies selectivity and double standards concerning the issue. Its talk about "protection of human rights" is nothing but leverage for interfering in the internal affairs of anti-U.S. independent countries and other countries which incurred its displeasure and using force against them and toppling governments there.
    That is why voices categorically opposing and rejecting the U.S. trumpeting about human rights are ringing louder in different parts of the world. This is evidenced by the mounting criticism of the U.S. anti-DPRK "human rights racket." Washington's escalated anti-DPRK "human rights offensive" is prompted by its sinister intention to realize a regime change in the DPRK at any cost.
    The Bush group's noisy anti-DPRK "human rights racket" only discloses its vulgar and despicable true nature.
    The U.S. "human rights offensive" against the DPRK will never work on it and people-centered socialism of Korean style is not such a weak system which would shake in face of the U.S. "human rights offensive."
    A lesson the Korean people have drawn from the U.S. undisguised human rights campaign against the DPRK is that human rights precisely means the state sovereignty and defending human rights precisely means protecting this sovereignty.
    The DPRK will increase self-reliant national defence capacity including nuclear deterrent, pursuant to the Songun policy, to cope with the U.S. escalated policy to isolate and stifle it with the nuclear issue and the "human rights issue" as pretexts.