North Korea Criticizes UN for Arbitrary Attacks on Individual Countries' Human Rights

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo In-ho] On the 20th, North Korea strongly protested against the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing it of arbitrarily raising human rights issues of individual countries.

The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a post on its website that “The UN Human Rights Council, which was established with the affirmation to handle all human rights issues fairly and equally, has now deviated from its original purpose and become a chaotic arena where the West arbitrarily attacks sovereign developing countries.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed, “There has never even been a discussion about appointing special rapporteurs to investigate human rights violations by the United States or Western countries, and only countries that do not conform to Western values and human rights standards are selected as targets,” adding, “The adoption of human rights resolutions targeting individual countries is the same.”

This is interpreted as targeting the activities of Thomas Ojea Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, and the North Korea human rights resolution that has passed the Third Committee under the UN General Assembly for 17 consecutive years.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, “To truly realize the protection and promotion of human rights, above all, the coercion and arbitrariness of the United States and the West, which disturb the international human rights stage, must be ended.”

In an article titled ‘New Zealand Should Not Invite Trouble on Itself,’ the Ministry criticized New Zealand, which dispatched military assets near the Korean Peninsula to monitor the implementation of sanctions against North Korea, as a “pro-American follower.”

It added, “Our people have not forgotten that New Zealand followed the United States and dispatched troops during the Fatherland Liberation War (the Korean War), and we are watching with a strict eye New Zealand’s participation in the implementation of sanctions resolutions, which are products of the hostile policy fabricated by the United States.”

Furthermore, it said, “The frequent appearance of New Zealand patrol aircraft in the sensitive waters around the Korean Peninsula only has a negative impact on the surrounding military and political environment,” and pressured, “The New Zealand authorities should stop blindly following their master and doing the foolish act of inviting trouble on themselves.”

New Zealand announced on the 4th that it would dispatch patrol aircraft to monitor North Korea’s illegal maritime ship-to-ship transfers in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions, marking the fifth such dispatch.

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