PYONGYANG (Dispatches) – North Korea said the country and some other nations are suffering from the politicization of human rights and the application of double standards by the West and hegemonic powers.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry made the remark on its homepage on Sunday, mentioning Ambassador to the United Nations Han Tae-song’s Tuesday speech for the 48th regular session of the Human Rights Council, KBS reported.
According to the ministry, Han said in the speech that reports on some countries submitted to the council fail to accurately reflect the realities of the countries or are based on unsubstantiated claims.
The ambassador reportedly said that reports on human rights conditions in North Korea and some other sovereign states were based on false and fabricated data for impure political purposes.
Han is said to have accused some countries of using the issues of Xinjiang and Hong Kong to intervene in China’s internal affairs and said that this is unfair.
The remarks come amid tensions between North Korea and South Korea as well as the U.S. The North and the South have recently fired tit-for-tat missiles to flex their military muscles.
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has denounced as “inappropriate” the recent comments by South Korean president following his country’s ballistic missile test.
On Wednesday, President Moon Jae-in termed Seoul’s growing missile capabilities as a “sure deterrence” against provocations from Pyongyang.
“Enhancing our missile capability is exactly what’s needed as deterrence against North Korea’s provocation,” Moon said, as he supervised Seoul launching its first successful test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).
In response, Kim Yo-jong, in a statement carried by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Thursday, threatened a “complete destruction” of bilateral relations if Moon continued with what she described as slander of the North.