KCNA Commentary Calls for Heightening Vigilance against U.S. Hegemonic Moves

Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies issued a report on human rights comprehensively dealing with the human rights situation of the DPRK on Sept. 13.
    The report comprehensively dealt with the efforts made by the DPRK in the past and at present to promote human rights, factors of obstructing the promotion of human rights and implementation of international convention on human rights.
    The report made public at a time when the U.S. is misleading the public opinion while getting undisguised in their anti-DPRK human rights racket based on fabrications and lies is of important significance in helping the world get rid of prejudice and misunderstanding of the human rights performance in the DPRK and have correct understanding of it.
    The DPRK's attitude and stand on the human rights is based on the Juche idea, the idea centered on man and the scientific idea for advocating human independence.
    The DPRK government set a fair standard for ensuring human rights and guarantees the people all rights as social beings.
    The Korean people have confidence through their life experience that standard for human rights set by the DPRK government is a genuine and fair standard guaranteeing them independent rights.
    "Human rights standard" based on the U.S.-style view on value can not be applied to the DPRK and acts of exploiting them for political purposes or using them as preconditions for developing relations with the DPRK can never be tolerated.
    An act of pressurizing a country to accept political system, culture and lifestyle disliked by the people is a wanton interference in the internal affairs and a human rights abuse.
    But such rumor that human rights are above sovereignty is afloat on the international arena and interference in the internal affairs is justified due to the U.S. and some other Western countries.
    Human rights issue is an issue pertaining to the internal affairs and only when sovereignty is ensured, can human rights be guaranteed, too. It can neither be subject to interference in the internal affairs nor a tool for justifying the interference.
    All the people on the earth can exercise their rights to meet their independent requirements only when they have institutional and legal guarantee of the state in the countries where they live.
    It will only be an armchair argument to talk about ensuring human rights for the people who are deprived of their state sovereignty.
    This is clearly evidenced by the human rights abuses committed during Japan's colonial rule over Korea and by those perpetrated by hegemonic forces in Iraq and various other countries in the world or caused by them at present.
    There are big or small countries, more developed and less developed countries in the world but no country is invested with the right to violate and encroach upon the sovereignty of other countries.
    Each country has equal sovereignty and sovereignty is an inviolable and absolute right.
    The U.S. and Western countries put collective pressure on those countries that maintain their own social systems and political mode by labeling them "human rights abuser", prompted by their unilateral interests quite irrelevant to human rights.
    World peace is harassed and sovereignty of countries is abused, greatly hampering the national development due to the U.S. vicious interference and acts of aggression committed worldwide under the signboard of "defence of human rights".
    It is necessary to heighten vigilance against the U.S. moves as it tries to realize its hegemonic ambition by way of pressure and aggression while internationalizing "human rights issue". -0-