DPRK Denounces Phony Human Rights Report-from the Marxist Leninist Daily of Canada

Today in Geneva, the representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued a statement denouncing the phony human rights report issued the same day by a three-member Commission of Inquiry associated with the UN Human Rights Council. The report is based on material concocted by hostile forces backed by the United States, the European Union and Japan, the DPRK points out. The DPRK "categorically and totally rejects the report" which it decries as an "instrument of a political plot aimed at sabotaging the socialist system and defaming the country."

The DPRK points out that the creation of the Commission and the report itself are part of the attempts at subversion and regime change against the country, using the guise of concern about human rights.
The DPRK will "continue to strongly respond to the end to any attempt of regime-change and pressure under the pretext of 'human rights protection,'" said the statement.
The Commission was set up by the UN Human Rights Council a year ago at the request of the European Union, the United States and Japan following a resolution adopted by consensus at the 47-member state forum. The panel is comprised of a member each from Australia, Indonesia and Serbia. It was barred entry to the DPRK and collected its "evidence" from those that have left or speak ill of the DPRK.
TML points out that those powers which instigated the Commission lack the credibility to make such accusations against the DPRK. The U.S. and EU actively commit war crimes and rights violations via military aggression, invasions and occupations in the present day, while the ruling elite in Japan is champing at the bit to revise Japan's constitution so as to be able to actively participate in such imperialist adventures. The imperialists are past-masters of the Nazi technique of the big lie in the modern era, fabricating evidence to justify aggression and war, and repeating it via their imperialist monopoly media mouthpieces to try to sow doubt and provide pretexts to go to war.
Late last year, a major attempt at sabotage and counter-revolution was exposed in the DPRK. Speaking to TML, H.P. Chung from the Canadian Chapter of the 6.15 Committee explained the case of Jang Song Thaek, a former high ranking member of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean People's Army, who was executed for high treason. Chung explained that Jang Song Thaek had been working with forces in south Korea to plot a coup. He pointed out that these forces in south Korea themselves have shady dealings with defectors from the DPRK now living in China, precisely the people interviewed by the Commission for its report. At that time, the governments of south Korea, the U.S. and Japan made provocative remarks that the execution of Jang Song Thaek shows that the DPRK government is very unstable because there are dissidents in the country and that the future of the DPRK is unpredictable. Chung noted that, "These governments use every opportunity to give their anti-communist, anti-DPRK views which are aimed at destabilizing the DPRK. The U.S., south Korea, Japan and other countries are hoping and actively organizing for the DPRK to collapse so that they can destroy the system in the DPRK and change it to be more like south Korea and reunify the country on that basis. This would be a re-unified Korea not of the Korean people's making. This is not what the peace-loving Korean people want. [...]
"I think that rather than making irresponsible and hostile comments about the DPRK, the United States and the south Korea governments must show some maturity and pursue a peaceful policy towards the DPRK. The U.S. must sign a peace treaty with the DPRK which is the demand of the Korean people. South Korea must move towards reconciliation and understanding towards their north Korean compatriots in the spirit of the June 15, 2000 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4, 2007 Agreement. This would be positive steps to normalize diplomatic and trade relations with not only between the U.S. and the DPRK but also pave the way for normalized relations with Canada and other countries which would be very positive," Chung concluded.
The so-called human rights report issued today is another attempt to foment passions in favour of regime change in the DPRK. For instance, it accuses the government of the DPRK of using food as "a means of control over the population" and "deliberate starvation" to punish political and ordinary prisoners. It says nothing about the criminal blockade of the DPRK by the U.S. for the last six decades which has had a serious impact on the former's ability to conduct normal relations with other countries, including meeting the needs of its people for food and other necessities through trade. In fact, it is the U.S. which has the history of withholding goods and services from the DPRK, in violation of signed agreements, as a means of coercion and control and to interfere in the internal affairs and political system of the DPRK, in violation of international law. As well, the DPRK is forced to dedicate a substantial portion of its economy to self-defence precisely to defend itself from the ceaseless attempts of the U.S. to eliminate it so as to take over the entire peninsula and gain a greater foothold in Asia.
(copied from the TML Canada)