UK Should Redress Its Own Dire Human Rights Situation First

 2022.3.27.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/14645

The UK's Global Ambassador for Human Rights to the UN Office at Geneva has recently found fault with us during the interactive dialogue on the “report” of “special rapporteur” about the human rights situation in the DPRK at the 49th Session of the UNHRC.

It is common knowledge to the world that the “report” circulated annually by the “special rapporteur” is a document of stratagem running through with falsehood and fabrication from beginning to end.

The thing is that the UK's Global Ambassador for Human Rights, while repeating the contents of the “report” of the “special rapporteur” parrot fashion, turned her face away from the fact that our people enjoy genuine human rights. And she went so far as to openly denounce as human rights violations the anti-epidemic emergency measures our state has taken to protect the life and safety of the people.

It entirely belongs to the internal affairs of a relevant country to take whatever measures to protect the life and safety of its people.

All the activities of our state are thoroughly oriented towards and serve for defending and realizing the rights and interests of the people.

Even in the face of the global disaster caused by malignant pandemic, large-scale construction of dwelling houses for ordinary working people is in full progress and the Law on Childcare is adopted as the most important policy of the state to provide much more improved upbringing conditions for the growing children. The UK would never imagine nor imitate this reality even in its dreams.

She has a title of British diplomat. But she, unbecoming to her profession, made a remark of interfering into the internal affairs going against the basic norms governing the international relations.  We can never overlook this.

All kinds of human rights violations such as extreme racism, maltreatment of immigrants and police violence are committed one after another in the UK, much to the consternation of all people.  This is the real human rights situation in the UK.

Even at this very moment, a great number of refugees from the Middle East and Africa are losing their lives owing to the inhuman blockade imposed by the U.K. authorities, turning the English Channel into a “cemetery”.

On the other hand, horrible human rights violations, including murder, violence and child abuse take place every day in the very middle of London shocking the world, and even policemen, who are supposed to maintain the social legal order, are committing appalling criminal acts without scruple. Because of this, the British society is, in a word, turning into a constant crucible of extreme uneasiness and fear.

Besides this, the UK failed in its response to the malignant pandemic. The infection cases of COVID-19 have already exceeded 20,413,700 and the death toll stands at 163,900 putting the country at the top in Europe.

Such a reality speaks so clearly to what solutions the U.K authorities should come up with first.

The UK should be well-advised to redress its own dire human rights situation first, instead of wasting its energy and time in distorted propaganda against our reality blindly taking sides with the U.S. in its hostile policy against the DPRK.

 

Choe Hyon Do

Researcher of Korea-Europe Association