New York, 18 December, 2015

No. 186

Press Statement of the Permanent Mission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations

The Permanent Mission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations issues the following press statement with regard to the railroading of the “resolution on the human rights situation in the DPRK" submitted by the European Union (EU) and Japan at the Plenary Meeting of the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on 17 December 2015.

As we have already made it clear, the "resolution" submitted and adopted forcibly by the EU and Japan at the UN human rights arena is a product of political pressure, plot and conspiracy pursued by the United States and other hostile forces against the DPRK.

The "resolution" represents a clear manifestation of the hostile policy of the US and other forces against the DPRK and a typical example of the politicization, selectivity and double standards of human rights as well as a document of politically motivated provocation.

It is also a document of intrigue peppered with all sorts of fraud, swindle and malignant slanders from the beginning to the end. As the truth has already been disclosed to the whole world, the so-called “data” that the "resolution" was based on as "evidence" are the whopping lies presented by such human scum as "defectors" who fled their homeland after committing unpardonable crimes against the country and their kith and kin.

In accordance with the consistent government policy on taking responsibility for human rights of the masses of the people and continuously promoting and protecting them, the superior popular measures like universal free medical care, free education, free housing and gender equality are enforced invariably in the DPRK, where the entire people fully exercise and enjoy their independent and creative rights in all spheres of social life.

Accordingly, our people take immense pride and confidence in the socialist system and the mechanism for protection and promotion of genuine human rights established in the country.

The railroading of the anti-DPRK "resolution" in the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly clearly shows once again that the US and other hostile forces resort to ways and means in their attempt to tarnish the image of the DPRK and collapse its ideology and system.

It would be useful and effective for the EU and Japan to address, before taking issue with human rights issues of other countries, the appalling violations of human rights and destruction of peace in their home countries and allies such as the extra-large torture atrocities, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and mass killings of civilians by the US as the kingpin of human rights violations, the terrorist incidents in Europe, Middle East and Africa, the horrible refugee crisis and their maltreatment prevailing in Europe and the cruel crimes against humanity in the past, which are concerned by the whole world.

The miserable reality in several regions of the world caused by the American-style political stratagem of giving medicine after causing disease eloquently proves that it is quite justified for the DPRK to respond strongly to the maneuvers of the hostile forces to overthrow the socialist system of the DPRK.

We hope for genuine dialogue and cooperation in the international human rights field, but will deliver strong countermeasures to the end to the anti-DPRK "human rights" campaign of the US and other hostile forces aimed at stifling our system