calendar>>December 24. 2008 Juche 97
Deceptive and Reactionary Nature of U. S. Touted "Defense of Human Rights" Disclosed
Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- The United States is apt to pay lip-service to "protection of human rights", "democracy" and "peace" on one hand and busy massively selling various type arms and equipment to different other countries to meet its interests on the other.

Minju Joson Tuesday says this in a signed commentary.

It goes on:

The weapons exported by the U.S. are as harmful as "cancer" as they are used for disturbing peace and security and blocking democratic development and prosperity as evidenced by the facts that they are sparking and escalating armed conflicts in the relevant regions and countries, taking the lives of so many civilians and straining the situations there.

According to data available, a daily average of five ethnic conflicts is reported worldwide and four of them were sparked by the parties concerned by use of the arms and equipment imported from the U.S.

This being a hard reality, the United States is shamelessly pulling up other countries over "the human rights records," behaving as if it were "a human rights judge." Moreover, it is perpetrating such high-handed and arbitrary practices as putting unreasonable political pressure and economic sanctions upon other countries under the pretext of "protecting human rights". Some other Western countries are supporting it.

The United States and the West seem to consider the "human rights" as a lever for attaining their unjust selfish aims and a veil for covering up their black-hearted intentions.

But their hypocritical talk about "human rights" can never work in this bright world and no country will be taken in by it.

The human rights that should be given priority and respected are being ceaselessly infringed upon and are becoming targets of the plots hatched by political charlatans precisely because of such country as the United States and the forces blindly following it.

Only stern judgment of history awaits the United States as it is obstructing democratic development, prosperity and the guarantee of human rights and disturbing global peace and security in pursuance of its sinister aim, warns the commentary.

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