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True Colors of "Democracy" Seen through Constitution (1)

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

   Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is trying harder to spread the American way of "democracy" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea under the pretext of ensuring "freedom", "equality" and "human rights". The "democracy" on its lips, however, is a pseudo democracy. Only the socialist democracy centered on the popular masses is the very true one. The yardstick of characterizing the democratic nature of a given social system is how to stipulate the civil rights and duties.
    The people's "freedom" and "rights" defined by the Constitution of the United States disclose the true color of the American way of "democracy". What is most important for the people is the political freedom and rights.
    The Socialist Constitution of the DPRK stipulates that all the citizens above the age of 17 are entitled to vote and to be elected irrespective of sex, nationality, occupation, period of residence, property status, standard of learning, party affiliation, political view and religious belief. And it specifies that they are provided with freedom of speech, the press, assembly, demonstration, association and religious belief.
    Under the constitution, all the citizens of the country participate in elections to express their will enough and join various organizations to lead a free political life.
    On the contrary, the Constitution of the United States excludes the overwhelming majority of the popular masses from elections with many restrictive conditions including sex, nationality, occupation, period of residence, property status, race and standard of knowledge. The election registration procedures are also different and complicated in the states of the United States, which make a large number of people impossible to register their names in the lists of voters.
    During the mid-term election in 2002 only 40 percent of voters participated in it. The fact discloses in all nakedness the shamelessness of the U.S. styling itself the "judge of democracy" in the world.
    Even the "freedom of assembly and demonstration" and "freedom of association" stipulated by the constitution are nothing but a legal expression as they have no guarantee for realization and are restricted by the regulations in force.
    According to the Taft-Hartley Act established in 1947, for an example, in case of an "emergency" created by a strike, the court gives the right to adopting a law to stop the strike to the President. And if the strikers and trade union leaders do not respond to the decision of the court, they would be fined and imprisoned.
    The law was applied to 160,000 coal-mine strikers in 1978 and, by invoking it, President Reagan disbanded the airborne control tower workers trade union of the U.S. in 1981.
    It is none other than the U.S. where the political freedom and rights of the people are mercilessly violated and repressed by the above-said restrictive conditions and over 20,000 suppressive organizations.