[Pak Daily Times] A North Korean envoy lashed out at the UN General Assembly's human rights
... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you...
| But since North Koreans have neither human nor individual rights, it's a difference without a distinction. |
committee on Friday, saying criticism of Pyongyang was a plot aimed at overthrowing the country's government. North Korea's Deputy UN Ambassador Pak Tok Hun was responding to UN special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea Marzuki Darusman's report to the committee.
In his latest report, Darusman said there was an urgent need for Pyongyang to take "immediate steps to ensure the enjoyment of the right to food, water, sanitation and health, and to allocate greater budgetary resources to that end."
| Huh? Those aren't rights. They're responsibilities, something quite, quite different. |
Pak said Darusman's report, like the General Assembly's annual resolutions condemning the human rights situation in North Korea, was "a political plot fabricated by hostile forces in the attempt to isolate and stifle our system." "The purpose is clear," he said. "The promotion and protection of human rights is only in words but in reality what they try to do is change the ideology and system of our country." Darusman, an Indonesian, said reports from inside impoverished North Korea "indicate continued suffering of the people ... from chronic food insecurity, high malnutrition rates and spiralling economic problems." |