2022.12.26.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16281
Recently, at the plenary meeting of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, anti-DPRK “human rights resolution” has been railroaded into adoption.
The EU, at the instigation of the U.S., annually makes such a puerile political farce based on false data and we have consistently and categorically rejected it. This is already well-known to the world, so I think that there is no need for us to further comment on it.
What can’t be overlooked, however, is the fact that the hostile forces are now trying to deceive and ridicule the international community by covering up their sinister schemes to tarnish the image of our dignified country under the deceptive pretext of “human rights protection”. So I would like to make a public disclosure of the farce of anti-DPRK “human rights resolution”.
In April, 2003, at the 59th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights – the predecessor of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) – the EU, for the first time, submitted the “draft resolution” on the human rights situation of our country, which was later adopted under coercion.
At that time, bilateral dialogue and cooperation were in full swing in the human rights field between us and the EU, which had been started since 2001 by repeated request from the EU. Such being the situation, there was neither cause nor motive that would have triggered the EU’s submission of “draft resolution” then, which is ditto today.
Nevertheless, the EU drafted the “resolution” with utmost secrecy and kept mum about it during the whole session before making a surprise submission of it at the eleventh hour.
It is internationally recognized practice and procedure to give prior notice to the other party concerned with regard to the draft resolution to be submitted to the UN conference and consult with each other, from the spirit of constructive dialogue and cooperation.
If the submission of the “draft resolution” on the human rights situation of our country is just and legal, the EU wouldn’t have taken such trouble as to contrive the scheme in secret and execute it behind the scene.
Then why did the EU let the rare opportunity for dialogue and cooperation slip and opt, instead, for confrontation by submitting the “draft resolution”?
The reason behind such an act was quite obvious.
As for the circumstances behind the adoption of the “resolution”, it was the time when the DPRK-US confrontation was driven to extremes by the unprecedented pressure launched by the U.S. following DPRK’s withdrawal from the NPT in January 2003.
When it became clear that sanctions and military threat alone could not bring us into submission, the U.S. first invented the pretext of “human rights issue”, then coerced its allies to join with it in its vicious smear and isolation campaign targeting our Republic.
The adoption of anti-DPRK “human rights resolution” was an act of EU’s subservience to the U.S., following in the footsteps of the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK. The U.S., having revoked the DPRK-US Agreed Framework, designated our state as the “axis of evil” then.
Since then, the EU has been inciting a one-sided confrontation in the UN arena while submitting annually the anti-DPRK “draft human rights resolution” at the instigation of the U.S.
The anti-DPRK “human rights resolution” bases all its arguments on the concoctions of distortive nature, namely the “testimonies” of the human scums of “defectors” who got away with murder. This resolution is critically defective for a UN document which regards scientific accuracy and credibility as its very life.
We can hardly expect any proper word from the criminals who have no other choice but to make a series of lies to prolong their lives after having fled the country with their parents, wives and children being left behind.
The UN has committed a downright illegal act that runs counter to the civilization and rule of law desired by the UN by fabricating the “resolution” on the human rights situation of our State with the help of such criminals. This is so pitiful.
The adoption of anti-DPRK “human rights resolution” in the UN area is, from A to Z, a product of the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK. It is an act of political confrontation aimed at intervening in the internal affairs of our Sate and overthrowing the system, and an act of infringing upon the sovereignty – the highest expression of human rights violation.
To us, human rights mean sovereign rights.
As we hold the national sovereignty, the integration of genuine human rights of the people, dearer than our lives, we will take tough stand to the end against the “human rights” campaign of the U.S. and vassal forces in order to defend the people-centered socialist system chosen at the cost of blood.
If the U.S. and vassal forces continue to recklessly cling to anti-DPRK “human rights” pressure, they will only hasten the unendurable disaster.
Kim In Guk
Researcher of Korean Association for Human Rights Studies
