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DPRK to Make Positive Contribution to Worldwide Protection and Promotion of Human Rights

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

   Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will more firmly defend the advantageous socialist system of Korean style which legally and practically guarantees the people's enjoyment of human rights on the basis of the man-centered Juche idea and make a positive contribution to protecting and promoting human rights worldwide. A DPRK delegate said this when addressing the meeting of the Third Committee handling social, human rights and humanitarian issues of the 62nd UN General Assembly on October 31.
    There go on the international arena at present unceasing acts of taking the lives of innocent people and violating the rights and basic freedom of people quite contrary to the trend of the times towards peace and stability, he noted, and continued:
    In order to protect and promote human rights it is necessary to put an end to aggression against sovereign states and interference in their internal affairs and the application of the double standards and selectivity in dealing with human rights issues and eradicate national chauvinism prevalent in the developed countries.
    Referring to the fact that xenophobia is frequently practiced and minorities are becoming targets of violence as a result of the emergence of neo-Nazism and ultra-right forces in different countries, he drew the attention of the above-said committee to the Japanese authorities' suppression of Koreans in Japan.
    This is a wanton violation of the UN Charter which calls for respecting human rights and basic freedom of all people and major international laws on human rights as it is a heinous fascist act to physically remove the centre for activities of Koreans in Japan in a bid to suppress the activities of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and Koreans in Japan, he noted, and continued:
    The DPRK has done all it could to protect and promote the rights of the people despite the ceaseless threat of aggression by the U.S. and other hostile forces and unprecedented economic blockade for nearly six decades since its founding.
    The Korean people now fully enjoy the basic freedom and amply exercise their rights as the full-fledged master of the state and society.