SEUL, Mar 13 The DPRK Foreign Ministry once again condemned the United States for «heinous interference» in its internal affairs by discussing the situation of human rights in North Korea at the UN and promised to respond to this with «heavy countermeasures,» the DPRK Central News Agency (KCNA) reports.
The United States promotes an informal meeting of UN Security Council members on human rights violations in North Korea on March 17th.
«The DPRK, considering the heinous intrigues of pressure in the field of «human rights» by the United States as the most striking expression of the hostile policy against the DPRK, strongly condemns and completely rejects them,» the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Ministry noted that the United States has long used human rights as a pretext for «vile interference» in the internal affairs of independent sovereign states to «destroy their system and change their governments.» Pyongyang has already got used to this and believes that Washington is playing the human rights card whenever it is «driven into a corner» and can no longer put pressure on the DPRK with the help of the nuclear issue.
«»The intrigues of the United States and its satellites against the DPRK in the field of «human rights» have nothing to do with the real provision of human rights and are just a politicized hostile tool to distort the image of the DPRK and destroy the real rights and interests of the Korean people,» it says in a statement.
It is noted that the confrontation between the DPRK and the United States is a confrontation between «ideas and systems», therefore, Washington should be fought with the help of ideology and weapons. The DPRK Foreign Ministry calls for «mercilessly punishing the American imperialists» and forcing them to pay a «great price.»
«The DPRK once again solemnly declares that in order to consistently protect the sovereignty, rights and interests of the state, it will respond with super-powerful countermeasures to the most heinous conspiratorial attacks by the United States and its satellites,» the Foreign Ministry said.