Don't politicize DPRK human rights issue

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has denounced a UN resolution, drafted by the European Union and Japan, as a "US-led farce", and organized a demonstration of about 100,000 people in Pyongyang in protest against it. The resolution is expected to be submitted to the UN Security Council in December.

The Third (human rights) Committee of the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Nov 18 recommending that the Security Council refer the DPRK to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

A DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman has described the US as a human rights "tundra". Citing the protests that erupted after a policeman was not indicted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, he said: "This is clear proof of the real picture of the US as a tundra of human rights, where extreme racial discrimination acts are openly practiced."