Press Statement of the Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Press Statement of the Permanent Mission of

the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

 

            The Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations releases the following press statement with regard to the “High-Level Meeting on Human Rights in North Korean” hosted by the United States.

            The United States conducted once again the human rights campaign against the DPRK on September 23 by hosting "high-level Meeting on Human Rights in North Korea" having no relevance with ongoing 69^th session of U.N. General Assembly.

            The United States invited only those countries which blindly follow U.S. policy and attempted to mislead the world opinion as if the "report" of the "Commission of Inquiry" and "resolution of 25th Session of UN Human Rights Council" with representing of "international will"

            Condemning and denouncing the "high-level Meeting" as political plots, the Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations slates its position as follows;

            The "report" of the "Commission of Inquiry" cannot in any way be the basis of consideration in UN, since it fully distorted the reality of human rights situation in the DPRK.

            The "report" of the "Commission of Inquiry" is only full of fabricated and plot materials of U.S. and the "testimonies" of criminals like "defectors" who escaped from North to avoid legal punishment for their guiltiest.

            It is stereotyped method of the U.S. to abuse the UN as a tool for their political plot by  circulating the prejudiced and groundless documents in the name of UN. It is clearly violation to the UN Charter.

            We neither recognize nor accept the "report" of the "Commission of Inquiry". This principled position will remain invariable.

            If at all they have any interest in resolving the issue, the United States should offer fair report prepared through enough consideration and legitimate procedure.

            We are ready to provide all possible cooperation to this end.

            Recent release of the report of DPRK Association human rights studies is typical manifestation.

            Our people are proud of political system chosen by themselves.

            All lines and policies in our own socialist system are oriented toward serving the best interest of people and their well-being.

            The Human rights is a recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all person as most important social being.

            The rights to existence,  life and development are the most essential parts of human rights.     

       In order to guarantee the exercise of these rights, it is fundamental principle to defend its own ideology and social system.

            Based on this, we reaffirm our position that human rights precisely means sovereign rights of the State.

            The political pressure, economic sanction and blockade and military threat of hostile forces against the DPRK are main obstacle to disturb the efforts of our Republic for protecting human rights and improving the well-being of our people.

   The United States is disqualified to refer to the human rights situation of other countries since the U.S. deserves to be the worst human rights violator in the world.

Under the “Liberty Statue” in the U.S, human rights abuses of all sorts are perpetrated such as racial discrimination, use of violence by police, maltreatment of prisoners, gun related crime and violence against women, etc.

Also U.S. conducts large-scale wiretapping and surveillance of foreign citizens, kills innocent people in several countries with drone attacks under the name of “war on terror”, keep blind eye on the Israeli atrocities of massacring the Palestinian people in Gaza strip and invasion of other sovereign states, thus aggravating social instability and humanitarian crisis.

            The US is advised to clean its own human rights ravages rather than acting as "human rights judge".

            We will remain in consistent position to make contribution to the efforts of international community for protection and promotion of human rights.  

 

            Recently, our Republic expresses its willingness to hold human rights dialogue and accept the technical assistance of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

            With regard to the "high-level meeting", we sent the message, through New York Channel, to the US Department of States requesting our participation. In the message, we emphasized that  we do not oppose holding human rights dialogue with anyone on an equal footing and if the U.S. has no hostile intent to overthrow our social system under the disguise of "human rights issue", it should allow us to attend meeting in our capacity as a party directly concerned. But the U.S. desperately ignored our request.

            Ignoring concerned country's request for participation in the meeting is a proof that anti-DPRK human rights campaign has nothing to do with genuine human rights.

            Although we do not oppose the human rights dialogue on equal footing, we cannot tolerate the attempt to use human rights issue as a tool to overthrow our social system.