North Korea raps U.N. resolution on its human rights
2015/03/28 19:10
SEOUL, March 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea again rejected on Saturday a U.N. resolution urging it to improve its alleged human rights conditions, calling it a product of a U.S.-led provocation.
"Maneuvers by the U.S. and other hostile forces that are seeking to slander our people-oriented socialist regime and isolate our nation are becoming more vicious," an unidentified spokesperson for the North's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the communist state's official Korean Central News Agency.
The statement came one day after the U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution urging the North to improve its human rights conditions while criticizing the communist state for violating the human rights of its people.
"We firmly reject the so-called resolution adopted at the U.N. Human Rights Council as an outcome of anti-DPRK campaign by hostile forces in the U.S. and again affirm our firm determination to thoroughly destroy the fanatic anti-DRPK campaign," the statement said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The U.N. resolution was co-sponsored by the European Union and Japan.
The North denounced the two proponents as "fanatic" followers of the United States.
"The U.S. must stop interfering with other countries' domestic affairs while acting like a human rights judge, and correct its own human rights issues," it said. "Japan and the EU must work to improve their own reputations that have been tarnished to the lowest level in the international community instead of acting impudently while blindly following the U.S."
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