calendar>>December 11. 2008 Juche 97
Human Rights Condition Resulting from Quite Different Standards
Pyongyang, December 10 (KCNA) -- To establish a proper human rights standard is very important in fairly solving the human rights problem.

This standard is dissimilar as countries differ in idea, ism, religion and system and in the level of economic and cultural development and target of social development.

In the DPRK, a man-centred socialist society, it is a fair standard of human rights, if the people like it and it suits their interests, and human rights are institutionalized on the political and legal basis.

All the members of the society enjoy an independent and creative life to their heart's content, fully guaranteed all the rights of a social being including political freedom and rights, the right to work and existence and the right to education and medical treatment.

On the contrary, the U.S.-led imperialists set forth human rights conception and standard for the exploiter classes as a "human rights pattern" under the cloak of deceptive "globalization" and are trying to force it upon all other countries.

In the United States, which styles itself the "human rights defender" and the "human rights judge", a handful of wealthy clans enjoy privileges, holding most of the riches of the country in their hands.

According to official count, more than 36 million people went hungry and 47 million could not get proper medical aid when they fell ill, left out of "medical insurance" for the lack of money, in the U.S. last year alone.

More than 120,000 go begging without a roof over their heads and 8.5 million (as of May) were jobless across the country. Annually, nearly 2 million working people on an average are under threat of violence and over 1.8 million get injured at their working sites.

The U.S. tops the world in drug consumption where 42.2 percent of the population used mariguana and 16.2 percent cocaine more than once. It had nearly 2.32 million prisoners at the beginning of this year, the highest in ratio to the population, and records the biggest crimes in mistreating them. It made robber-like inroads into Iraq and burned defenseless inhabitants to death by using even chemical weapons. The U.S. is, indeed, the kingpin of human rights abuse.

Nevertheless, the U.S. is kicking up quite a dust, croaking that "human rights are violated" in the socialist society and socialism is "inhuman society". It brings a hornet's nest about the world's ear by making public a "human rights report" every year and taking issue with the human rights records of other countries.

This situation resulting from the diametrically different human rights standards glaringly proves that the United States is the very one which should sit in the "dock" of the human rights court and the "human rights problem" over which it is letting out a terrific outcry is nothing but a political fiction for intensifying interference in others' internal affairs and intrigues to overthrow their governments and stifle them.

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