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DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Blasts Anti-DPRK "Resolution"

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

   Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Saturday as regards the adoption of an anti-DPRK "resolution" at the 7th session of the UN Human Rights Council:
    The session held on March 27 criticized the DPRK's "human rights situation" and adopted a "resolution" on extending the tenure of office of a ghost-like special rapporteur one year.
    The "resolution" was bulldozed past the session with the help of some dishonest forces, the EU and Japan being main players, pursuant to the U.S. moves against the DPRK. This is a politically-motivated document as it is full of sheer lies and fabrications.
    The adoption of the anti-DPRK "resolution", the most vivid manifestation of the act of politicizing human rights, selectivity and double-standards, is to serve the political purpose of tarnishing the image of the dignified DPRK and eliminating its ideology and system.
    The "resolution" is little short of paralyzing the universally accepted deliberation function of the council to handle the human rights situation in all countries on an equal footing as it calls for retaining the post of special rapporteur for an individual country, a leftover of the already defunct UN Human Rights Commission.
    25 countries out of the 47 member nations of the council said no to the "resolution." This fact goes to prove that the "resolution" lacks both impartiality and objectivity and its objective is also questionable.
    As far as the human rights are concerned, blame should be laid on the U.S., the worst human rights abuser, as it has unhesitatingly committed aggression against sovereign states and massacred civilians there, on Japan which has evaded its responsibility for the past hideous crimes against humanity and on other Western countries plagued with all kinds of human rights abuses.
    Human rights precisely represent sovereignty.
    Human rights are firmly guaranteed legally and institutionally in the Korean-style socialist society centered on popular masses, and its people fully enjoy genuine freedom and rights in all fabrics of social life.
    The DPRK sternly refutes the "resolution" as it is a product of the anti-DPRK political plot hatched by the EU and Japan at the prodding of the U.S.
    The "resolution" will only result in scuttling the cooperation between the UN Human Rights Council and the DPRK and aggravating their mistrust and confrontation and the U.S., the EU and Japan will be held fully accountable for all the unpredictable consequences.