Permanent Mission of DPRK at UN Issues Press

Statement

Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- The permanent mission of the DPRK at the UN
released the following press statement on Wednesday:
Recently the European Union submitted again a "resolution" taking issue with the
human rights situation in the DPRK to the Third Committee of the 79th Session of
the UN General Assembly.
The EU, at the instigation of the U.S., has annually conducted such moves as
submitting "human rights resolution" against the DPRK for more than 20 years. This
is a politically-motivated provocation aimed to tarnish the image of the dignified
DPRK and bring down its ideology and social system under the signboard of "human
rights protection".
The DPRK permanent mission at the UN categorically rejects the "resolution"
submitted by the EU again as a document for ill-intended political propaganda and a
confrontational document contrary to the UN Charter, which stipulates respect for
sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs, and to the efforts of UN member
states to ensure the genuine protection and promotion of human rights through
dialogue and cooperation.
Today, the World Declaration of Human Rights and universal international human
rights standards have become political means for interfering in the internal affairs of
other countries by the U.S. and Western countries and the genuine dignity and rights
of mankind have not been realized. This reality would be unthinkable apart from the
moves of the dishonest forces perverting the universal definition of human rights for
their geopolitical purposes.
The harmful consequences, the European countries styling themselves "advanced
nation in human rights" have inflicted on the work for protecting and promoting
human rights in the world, are very serious and nothing can cover up them.
Such institutional and widespread human rights abuses as racial discrimination,
sexual assault, maltreatment of immigrants, flesh traffic and police violence rampant
in the European region go to clearly prove how absurd and hypocritical the gibberish
about "human rights" preached by politicians in Europe are.
Many refugees, who left homes for living, lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea
and even survivors became victims of all kinds of crimes, getting cold reception and

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contempt, anywhere they go. This horrible reality is attributable to the bloody act of
the European "human rights missionaries" who absolutely followed the U.S. strategy
for hegemony.
EU, which should sit in the dock at a human rights tribunal to face severe judgment
by the international community, is trying to assess and admonish over the human
rights situation in other countries at will, far from reflecting on itself. This is the height
of the guilty party filing the suit first and an intolerable mockery and insult to human
rights.
No international law authorized EU to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign
states with its dual normative criterion.
The EU should be clearly mindful that its persistent illegal anti-DPRK "human rights"
racket, pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, will only bring to light its
poor plight of being plunged deeper into "strategic subjugation", instead of "strategic
autonomy".
The human rights system and situation of the DPRK are estimated by its people
themselves, not by hypocrites in other continents across the ocean.
The DPRK will never tolerate any attempt of the hostile forces seeking to deprive its
people of their happy and independent life with ill-minded repugnance toward the
Korean-style socialist system. It will more reliably defend the genuine human rights
of its people by the most responsible and proactive efforts. -0-