North Korea rejects UN rights council resolution, calling it 'document of fraud'

By Anadolu Staff

ANKARA (AA) - North Korea on Thursday rejected a UN Human Rights Council resolution on human rights violations in the country, calling it a "heavily politicized document of fraud."

Han Tae Song, North Korea’s permanent representative to the UN, said in a statement that the resolution against Pyongyang was “unilaterally coerced by the US” and was “forcibly adopted” at the council’s 52nd session on Tuesday.

But it did not deserve to be recognized, he added.

Han said: “The ‘resolution’, unilaterally coerced by the U.S. and its following forces, is the most heavily politicized document of fraud which is full of such falsehood and fabrications as ‘denial of the right to information’, ‘arbitrary detention and punishment’, ‘social discrimination’, ‘abduction’ and ‘surveillance of the private lives’ – the non-existent and non-exist-able phenomena in our society,” according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

Han accused the US of being behind the resolution and questioned: “How a country could deceive the world community with false information while openly invading sovereign states?”

"The United States is the worst-ever human rights violator and the barren land of human rights," the North Korean diplomat said.

He also criticized the UN human rights body, saying its job is to work for the common interest of humanity, but it is being “misused for bloc forming conspiracy and attacking specific countries.”

“The U.S. is making desperate effort to isolate and stifle the Korean people by the unprecedented, inhumane and anti-humanitarian sanctions and blockade. Such being the case, it stands as an insult to human rights, a mockery of human rights and an unpardonable crime against the human rights that the U.S. dares to pick on the human rights situation in our country,” he said.

Han also warned South Korea and the US that his country will never tolerate any hostile act.

"I take this opportunity to send a stern warning to south Korean puppet gang of traitors, a mere colonial servant of the U.S. even bereft of its national sovereignty, for its impudence to provoke our prestigious Republic with the human rights situation," the diplomat said.

Han was apparently referring to last week's South Korean Unification Ministry report, in which Seoul claimed that North Korean authorities had executed people on suspicion of watching South Korean videos.

*Writing by Islamuddin Sajid