Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on Saturday:
UN Secretary-General Guterres recently submitted to the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly a "human rights report" filled with hostile forces' vicious criticism and smear propaganda against the DPRK.
The act of Guterres, who unhesitatingly signed the groundless document cooked up by the U.S., Japan, the ROK and Western countries, clearly shows his position as the first spokesman, political instrument and puppet of the U.S. and the West, who has completely abandoned his duty and moral obligation as UN secretary-general having to deem impartiality and fairness vital.
The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK holds in contempt and resolutely denounces and rejects in the strongest terms the hostile forces reducing the sacred UN arena into the one of malicious criticism and propaganda while distorting the human rights situation of a sovereign state and the act of the UN secretary-general irresponsibly following it.
The "human rights report", a typical product of the U.S.-led hostile forces' anti-DPRK "human rights" racket, is conspiratorial in its contents, stereotyped in its form and illegal in its justification for existence.
Publishing of "reports" and enforcement of the "special rapporteur" system to randomly estimate the human rights situations of the DPRK and other countries in the name of the UN are a typical example that shows how impotent and submissive the UN speaking for the international community and its head are toward the U.S. and the West high-handed and arbitrary practices.
Now international peace and security has plunged into the most critical phase ever since the end of Cold War and the UN has been exposed to the worst structural and moral crisis ever since its foundation. It is no exaggeration to say that the current UN secretary-general is wholly to blame for this as he has connived at the U.S. and its vassal forces' high-handed and arbitrary practices and even followed them.
During the term of Secretary-General Guterres, the UN has been reduced into an unfair and undemocratic body that speaks for the exclusive interests of a specific nation and minority, instead of general interests of the international community, contrary to the purpose of the founding of the UN and the principle of its Charter.
We expect nothing from the current UN secretary-general who has betrayed the confidence of the international community and will soon retire from office. But we will never tolerate the repetition of such prejudiced and provocative conduct politicizing the human rights issue in the term of the next secretary-general.
For us, human rights are just national rights and absolute sovereignty never to be surrendered in any case.
If anyone hurts the dignity and system of the DPRK and encroaches upon its people's interests, it will be regarded as a grave violation of the latter's sovereignty and the former will be surely blamed for it.
The DPRK will ensure its rights and interests in overall fields including sovereignty, human rights and security by itself and thoroughly exercise them and continuously make great efforts to eliminate the UN's partiality and double standards and realize democracy and impartiality in the organization. -0
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