Deplorable Situation of U.S. Styling Itself "Human Rights Champion": News Analyst

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- "Freedom" and "democracy" loudly advertised by the U.S. are no more than rhetoric to cover up its unpopular rule and human rights abuses. A recent issue of the Russian paper Pravda carried an article titled "Does the U.S. abolish democracy for its citizens?" The article said: The U.S. is styling itself the most democratic country in the world. This country, however, tops the world list of watch on its citizens. People deride and censure the U.S. for respecting human rights in this manner. The U.S. has turned into an invisible huge prison as a dense network of watch surveys and controls every movement of people. This is the situation of the U.S. styling itself a "human rights champion." Let's take New York where the Statue of Liberty is standing as an example. "Everybody will be watched in New York". This is commonly used as a slogan in the city. Hundreds of thousands of cameras photograph the visitors to subway and various buildings and car plate numbers every day. What matters is that such human rights abuses are going beyond tolerance limit. Not content with using cameras, even military drones are used for monitoring. The monitoring of people by internet is also intensified. Commenting on this situation, world public warns that overall control over citizens may change into universal dictatorship covered with thin veil of "democracy." It is a well known fact that one can hardly say about the guarantee of human rights in the U.S. where the specter of fascist dictatorship is haunting. The U.S. had better settle all human rights abuses before taking issue with others.

Lessons of Balkan Peninsula

Lessons of Balkan Peninsula

When socialism collapsed in East Europe and Yugoslavia fell into confusion between the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the U.S. began to intervene in the Kosovo dispute.

The U.S. did not want to see an independent Kosovo, but to use Albanian extremists in its moves to justify its intervention in Yugoslavia, expand its military influence in the Balkan region and split Yugoslavia. The U.S. also schemed to intercept Russia's influence on that country.

Seeing the Kosovo crisis as a factor of instability of the region, the U.S. and other western countries expanded the internal issue of Yugoslavia into an international issue.

They slapped Yugoslavia with ban on export of weapons and other international sanctions and made public a package step of sanctions for the settlement of the Kosovo crisis.

The U.S. threatened that if Yugoslavia refuses to pull out its special unit from Kosovo, it would strike major points of military importance of the latter.

Meanwhile, the U.S. let the UN adopt a resolution on withdrawing special units of Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia pulled out its troops from Kosovo.

The situation seemed to be eased.

On February 6, 1999, however, the U.S. held talks on the Kosovo issue and demanded Yugoslavia grant Kosovo the right of self-government and accept 30 000-strong NATO ground force for the surveillance of ceasefire.

The talks came to a rupture.

The U.S. shifted all responsibilities for it to Yugoslavia and launched outrageous military attack on Yugoslavia, a full-fledged sovereign state under the signboard of "protection of human rights and minority race".

The U.S.-led NATO hurled large armed forces into Yugoslavia and devastated it.

The tragedy was caused by Yugoslavia’s failure to build up its own strength.

In fact, Yugoslavia and some big nations had agreed to cooperate militarily if the U.S. and NATO began to attack.

But it was an empty talk.

The situation taught that if a country does not boost its own strength while depending on big nations, it can neither safeguard its sovereignty and security, nor defend the lives of people and, in the end, would be reduced to a colonial slave.

All the anti-imperialist independent countries should see through the aggressive methods of the imperialists and build up their own strength for self-defense. Only then, can they check the U.S. highhandedness and prevent a miserable occurrence.

Ra Myong Song

Support for the DPRK from SUCI and International Anti-imperialist Coordinating Committee (IACC)

Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un

First Secretary of Workers Party of Korea

Supreme Commander of the Korean Peoples Army

Marshall of DPRK

Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un,

The peace-loving people of the world are roundly condemning the latest US conspiracy of heightening tension on the Korean Peninsula through joint US-South Korea military drills and deploying US Stealth Bombers with nuclear capability. The design is for South Korea to launch attack on DPRK with the avowed purpose of bringing down the present DPRK Government, demolish the socialist state and wipe off socialism. The peace-loving people of the whole world are in solidarity with the heroic resistance of the DPRK State and of the Korean people to any aggression and defend socialism. We endorse the sovereign right of DPRK to defend itself from US-South Korean aggression and if attacked to employ all possible means in self-defense. The sole responsibility of the consequences of such an act of aggression would entirely lie with the regimes of South Korea and USA . Along with the people of the whole world we reiterate that we stand by the side of DPRK in this struggle.

With revolutionary greetings,

Manik Mukherjee

Member, Polit Buro

Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI(C))

and

General Secretary

International Anti-imperialist Coordinating Committee (IACC)