North Korea: EU 'Human Rights Sanctions' Are Political Tools Targeting Countries with Different Values

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] On the 22nd, North Korea criticized the European Union (EU) Council's imposition of human rights sanctions on six countries including China and North Korea as a "political tool targeting countries with different values."

According to the Korean Central News Agency on the 24th, a spokesperson for North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded on the 23rd to a question from a KCNA reporter, stating, "We strongly condemn and completely reject the EU's 'human rights sanctions' play as a part of their stereotyped anti-DPRK hostile policy, an impure political provocation aimed at infringing on our country's sovereignty and interfering in our internal affairs."

The spokesperson added, "The so-called legal basis for these sanctions, which the EU calls a human rights sanction system, is a malicious law devised to pressure countries that displease them. It has no connection whatsoever with genuine human rights improvement and is just another impure political tool targeting countries with different values."

The spokesperson further stated, "World public opinion unanimously views the EU's human rights farce, which causes turmoil by repeating worn-out human rights rhetoric, as remarkably reminiscent of a copycat of someone else," and added, "If that is the case, wouldn't it be better to call it the EU-United States of America altogether, without insisting on its independence?" thereby indirectly criticizing the United States.

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