KCNA Commentary Hits U.S. Wiretapping of Other Countries

 Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is still persisting in wiretapping other countries with advanced technology.
    The U.S. newspaper Washington Post recently reported that the U.S. National Security Agency has a technology capable of recording all phone messages in other countries and storing them for one month.
    Such action in the wake of disclosed wiretapping cases has lashed the international community into anger as it is the height of human rights abuses and moral vulgarity.
    Tapping a phone call is illegal. Moreover, it can not be overlooked as wiretapping against any other country means espionage.
    Nevertheless, a spokesperson for the National Security Council of the White House insisted that an action is needed to cope with new threats, adding that the sustained media report about specified technology to be applied in the U.S. legitimate intelligence-gathering activities is harmful to the security of the U.S. and its allies.
    This assertion shows that the U.S. is the kingpin of human rights abusers.
    According to data available, the U.S. National Security Agency has eavesdropped on more than 95 percent of the world communications and photographed almost all the objects on the earth by use of satellites, with 200 000 agents, lots of spy satellites and huge-scale database.
    A budget bill of the national intelligence planning for the fiscal year 2013 showed that the U.S. had doubled the budget for its intelligence regime after the "Sept. 11 incident", turning itself into an intelligence kingdom with 107 000 members. And the U.S. intelligence budget for 2013 amounted to 52.6 billion dollars.
    The cases of wiretapping by the U.S. are still now reported without letup throughout the world. The U.S. collects about two hundred millions of mobile phone messages on a daily average, including those of state leaders of different countries. In particular, more than 300 pieces of information on Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel were reportedly gathered.
    As seen above, the U.S. is the kingpin of human rights abusers and an evil country that does not hesitate to encroach even upon its allies' sovereignty for its own interests.
    The global electronic espionage, being conducted by the U.S., is a serious crime violating other countries' sovereignty as well as human rights.
    The U.S. deserves bitter curse and condemnation by the world community for its high-handed and arbitrary practices in disregard of the elementary usage among countries and international laws. -0-