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KCNA Dismisses "Resolution" on Human Rights Issue in DPRK as Ridiculous

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

   Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- An anti-DPRK "resolution" full of lies was recently railroaded through the 7th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The "resolution," asserting that "human rights are being systematically violated" in the DPRK, totally rejected the Korean-style socialist system centered on the popular masses and decided to extend the tenure of office of a ghost-like special rapporteur one year.
    It is clear that the "resolution" adopted with Japan and EU being main players is aimed at intensifying their interference in the internal affairs of the dignified DPRK as it serves the U.S. purpose of stifling the DPRK by tarnishing its image and increasing the international pressure on it.
    It is an unpardonable encroachment upon the DPRK, an independent and sovereign state, to dare interfere in its internal affairs under the pretext of "human rights issue".
    As well known, it is only those countries which incur the displeasure of the U.S. that have become targets of criticism over their human rights issues quite contrary to the principle of impartiality and objectivity, and the tendency of applying double standards and politicizing human rights has become more pronounced.
    As far as the human rights are concerned, blame should be laid, first of all, on the U.S., the worst human rights violator in the world, which does not hesitate to commit terrorist acts against sovereign states, and Japan which has refused to make an apology and reparation for its past hideous crimes against humanity.
    Nevertheless, those accustomed to taking issue with others, keeping mum about their human rights abuses, are talking about someone's "human rights."
    Great irony is that Japan, a political dwarf not entitled to talk about human rights, took the lead in railroading the anti-DPRK "resolution" through the recent session, behaving as if it were a "human rights judge."
    It is a well-known fact that elementary rights of the popular masses are being ruthlessly violated and terrorist acts against Koreans in Japan, overseas citizens of the sovereign state, and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), their legitimate organization, are being reported in an unbroken chain in Japan, to say nothing of abduction, conspiratorial plots and flesh traffic.
    It was ridiculous of Japan to have worked hard to hide all these crimes. It was so imprudent to insist that "the tenure of office of the special rapporteur be extended one year to observe and improve the human rights situation in north Korea" and cry out for international cooperation in the "abduction issue" which had already found a solution.
    If Japan wishes to be entitled to discuss human rights, it should, first of all, make an apology and reparation for such hideous human rights abuses as abducting and taking away at least 8.4 million Koreans, killing more than one million Koreans and forcing at least 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery in the last century. And it should honor its historical and moral commitments to protect the legitimate rights of Koreans in Japan, direct victims of its past colonial rule.
    Availing ourselves of this opportunity, we would like to warn the EU against its involvement in the racket kicked up by the U.S. and Japan over the "human rights issue."
    An overwhelming majority of countries said no to the "resolution" because they were of the view that the "resolution" was contrary to the universally accepted deliberation function of the council to handle the human rights situation in all countries on an equal footing and wrong as it is aimed at building a structure of confrontation in the council.
    Human rights precisely represent sovereignty.
    Human rights are firmly guaranteed legally and institutionally in the DPRK.
    The present reality goes to prove that there can be no human rights without national sovereignty and one should have strong deterrent if one is to defend genuine human rights and national sovereignty.
    The anti-DPRK hostile forces had better stop their rash acts, pondering over the unpredictable consequences to be entailed by their plots and moves to stifle the DPRK.