DPRK accuses S. Korea of smearing on issues of human rights

PYONGYANG, July 16 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Friday accused the South Korean authorities of smearing it on issues of human rights, the official news agency KCNA reported.

The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a bulletin that South Korea's 2011 white paper on human rights of the DPRK is "nothing but a dirty document against the DPRK" and "a politically-motivated unpardonable provocation against the inviolable system and dignity of the DPRK," according to the KCNA.

The issue of the white paper clearly proved once again "to what extent the group of traitors' hysteria for confrontation with fellow countrymen has reached," said the bulletin.

The South Korean authorities are making desperate efforts to tarnish the international image of the DPRK and let down the people of South Korea who wish for improvement in inter-Korean relations, ignoring its own terrible situation on human rights.

"Nothing is more foolish and ridiculous than this," said the bulletin.

The bulletin warned that the DPRK will never pardon the South Korean authorities' hurting the inviolable and dignified system in the DPRK.

It urged the South Korean authorities to "properly understand the burning hatred of the army and people of the DPRK and their will to wage a sacred retaliatory war against it and stop its rash acts."

Editor: Yang Lina


(2011-7-16/xinhuanet)