Special Article by UK KFA , ASSPUK and JISGE-Who are the real human rights abusers ?

During the past few months the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been subjected to an

unprecedented barrage of propaganda over the “human rights “ issue . The set piece of this was

the publication by the so-called “UN Commission of Inquiry “ of a so-called report into human rights in the DPRK . This was used to whip a tide of anti-DPRK , anti socialist propaganda . It is not only a means of malignantly slandering the socialist system of the DPRK and the Juche idea but a means of psychologically preparing people for intervention in the DPRK and war against the DPRK the UN Commision of Inquiry report even went as far to call for the arrest of the DPRK supreme leadership . Of course such a demand is not only a grave infringement of the sovereignty of the DPRK but is also a pipe dream that will never be realised.

So what is really behind the human rights propaganda against the DPRK , what are the facts concerning the allegations ? who are the real human rights violators ?

The so-called report is a disgusting example of extreme bias and one sidedness by the UN which shows that the UN is not impartial or fair but simply represents the interests of some Western countries chiefly the US. The UN is a marionette of US imperialism , a sort of executive agency of the  US controlled New World Order .We can remember years ago an old African comrade saying that the UN was simply the colonial office of US imperialism. The so-called report was itself contrary to the basic principles of the UN charter which rules out intervention in the internal affairs of members states . ''The Commission of Inquiry did not  even allow the DPRK to put its case . Nor did it visit the DPRK . It evidence came from so-called “defectors “.

The chairman of the Commission of Inquiry was an Australian judge one Michael Kirby . Australia is a very pro-active member of the US-south Korea-Japan -Australia axis . These days the US is trying to create a NATO style structure in the Asia- Pacific region and Australia is a very much a key player in this.

Lets take a brief look at the background of Judge Michael Kirby himself. In 2002 an Australian senator demanded that Kirby stand down as a judge alleging that Kirby was a paedophile who used taxpayers money for cars to pick up rent boys . Whilst the allegations of paedophilia were un-proven as such there was a statement from a male prostitute alleging that Kirby had had an encounter with him . Is an individual with such an unsavoury past fit to sit in judgement on the dignified DPRK .

Lurking behind the report is a dishonest and political purpose of the U.S. and its followers seeking to undermine the ideology and social system of the DPRK.

Now, the forces hostile toward the DPRK regard the "human rights issue" as a main lever for stifling it since they had no way out over the "nuclear issue". The aim is to create a Cold War style campaign of hysteria against the DPRK . The purpose is clearly to bring down the socialist system of the DPRK and effect regime change by one means or another . The campaign is very reminiscent of the demonisation of Yugoslavia and Iraq before they were attacked and bombed and also the propaganda war against the Soviet Union in the late 1940s and 1950s , though in my opinion it goes far beyond that. By such intense psychological warfare against the DPRK it makes organising effective solidarity with the DPRK challenging as those who defend the DPRK are also demonised by the campaign.

So what the evidence used for the allegations against the DPRK ? None of it was obtained from actually visiting the DPRK , all of it is second -hand and basically what is known as anecdotal evidence as such it is no real validity in a court of law . Even if you believe the inflated figures of the number of defectors from the DPRK given by south Korea , they are a very small minority of the DPRK population , less than 1 % , so what about the views of the 99.9% of the DPRK's population why are they excluded , why is their voice not heard , why base the report on the views of an unrepresentative minority ? . The idea of trying to compute anecdotal evidence into data and then compute and analyse it has come a cropper before ; two famous US historians Fogel and Engermann produced a so-called econometric history of US negro slavery . Fogel and Engermann  analysed a slave owners diary about the number of times he beat a slave and then fed the results into a computer . The result was a book called “Time On the Cross “ which praised US slavery as a benevolent system . Not surprisingly the book got denounced as a racist . It serves a good illustration of the pitfalls of trying to turn anecdotal evidence into solid research . However the Commission of Inquiry report and other so-called reports on human rights in the DPRK which cite defectors as their main evidence goes far beyond being misguided and ineptitude . These reports are deliberately one-sided . Who are these “defectors “. Some of these people are not really from the DPRK but are actually south Koreans( have been heard speaking with south Korean accents) and others are those who committed very serious crimes such as murder, rape, theft and corruption . UK KFA has consistently exposed the character we call “Scumbag Shin “. This person who is allegedly a former DPRK citizen had his picture taken with war-criminal George W Bush and now works for the Bush Institute . What can one say about such a person ?

All the defectors are people e under the control of the south Korean "National Intelligence Service " and live on  funds  provided by the south Korean regime and the US . Is evidence from a witness who is bribed first , reliable evidence ? no basically.  In actual fact no real tangible evidence is offered  only assertions and stories , even drawings that look like they have been produced by the mentally ill or someone on drugs.

Time does not permit a full and detailed refutation of the allegations but some observations and comments can be made about them . The DPRK is one of the most harmonious and stable societies in the world where human rights violations are unheard of. In  the DPRK the socialist system guarantees real human rights such as the right to work , the right to rest and leisure and the right to eduction . These are not guaranteed in capitalist countries. In elections in the DPRK nearly 100% of people vote ,something unknown in the capitalist world . Under the Juche idea man is the master and his independence and creativity are enhanced by all means . The DPRK believes in ideological struggle rather than the use of administrative methods to tackle backward and reactionary ideologies .Socialism in the DPRK is built by the creativity of its people, by unleashing their potenial jailing large numbers of people would simply run counter to this.

Various figures for the numbers held in the camps are juggled about by the anti -DPRK lobby . Some claim that there are 250,000 held in prison camps in the DPRK. This would mean that the camps would be truly huge , the size of small cities and would require a huge infrastructure to support them and huge number of guards. Scumbag Shin's “Camp 14 “ in reality would have major road and rail links to the northern city and tourist resort of Hyangsan running right through the middle of it. Visiting the DPRK 9 times I can say honestly that I have never seen a prison camp or a prison. Some might say “ah but they are hidden away out of view “. Well you cannot hide large numbers of prisoners. I have never seen anyone get arrested nor the authorities use force against people. Visiting Brazil just once I saw the police push a young man against a wall at gunpoint one night but I have never seen such a thing in the DPRK. 

In fact the alleged number of people in 'prison camps' in the DPRK is still less than one tenth of the numbers of people held in US jails (the US has the largest prison population in the world) and the  rate of alleged incarceration lower than the real US incarceration rate.

Penal detention is only used in the DPRK is a very final and last resort for serious and persistent offenders. Re education is the preferred method . This is usually carried out in the community or workplace . The DPRK grants amnesties to prisoners on important anniversaries. This is something that would be unthinkable in a capitalist country.

So who are the real human rights abusers in the world ?

 Firstly, the USA As the world's worst human rights abuser, it pretended to be a "model" in human rights performance. More ridiculous are Obama's remarks at the ceremony that as the president, he came to realize that it is hard to make progress in the American society and there are some discouraging points.

In fact, the remarks are little different from his admission of the serious human rights situation in the U.S.

Under the citizenship act, racism is getting more severe in the U.S. The gaps between the minorities and the whites are very wide in the exercise of such rights to work and elect. The U.S. true colors as a kingdom of racial discrimination was fully revealed by last year's case that the Florida Court gave a verdict of not guilty to a white policeman who shot to death an innocent black boy.

That's why 52 percent of the Americans have said that racism still exists in the country while 46 percent contended that all sorts of discrimination would be everlasting.

Back in the 1950s the Civil Rights Congress of the US charged that the US had committed genocide against the Afro-American peoples of the United States

The U.S. is a living hell as elementary rights to existence are ruthlessly violated.

At present, an average of 300,000 people a week are registered as unemployed, but any proper measure has not been taken.

The housing price soared 11.5 percent last year than 2012 and 13.2 percent in January this year than 2013, leaving many people homeless.

The number of impoverished people increased to 46.5 millions last year, and one sixth of the citizens and 20-odd percent of the children are in the grip of famine in New York City.

All sorts of crimes rampant in the U.S. pose a serious threat to the people's rights to existence and their inviolable rights.

The U.S. government has monitored every movement of its citizens and foreigners, with many cameras and tapping devices and even drones involved, under the pretext of "national security".

Meanwhile, bills on easing arms control were adopted in various states of the country, boosting murderous crimes. As a result, the U.S. has witnessed an increasing number of gun-related crimes in all parts of the country and even its military bases this year. In this regard, the United Nations on April 10 put the U.S. on the top of the world list of homicide rates.

The U.S. also has 2.2 millions of prisoners at present, the highest number in the world. For lack of prisons on the part of the government, individuals are providing detention facilities to make money.

A Russian TV said that in the U.S. the wealthy classes are now keen on the investment in providing private prisons for their high profit and so more people will be imprisoned.

Such poor human right records in the U.S. are an inevitable product of the ruling quarters' policy against humanity.

Its chief executive, Obama, indulges himself in luxury almost every day, squandering hundred millions of dollars on his foreign trip in disregard of his people's wretched life.

It is also the president who called for respect to the verdict of not guilty given to a white policeman's racialism and backed the unlawful monitoring and tapping activities.

The U.S. is the world's worst human right abuser and tundra of a human being's rights to existence.

The US also committed crimes in south Korea

 The U.S. imperialist aggressors killed Koreans by the cruelest and most brutal methods baffling human imagination during the Korean war.
    During the Korean war, they killed at least 1.23 million people in the northern half of Korea and more than 1.24 million in south Korea.
    They committed sexual abuses against Korean women to satisfy their carnal desire and mercilessly killed them even in the vortex of the war.
    They committed hair-raising atrocities against many innocent people, lording it over south Korea after the war.
    There occurred ceaseless GI crimes last year alone. To cite just a few examples, GIs gang-raped a woman in her twenties on a subway electric car, GIs made shooting spree against passers-by in the center of Seoul, driving their car over a local policeman before taking to flight and a drunken GI drove his car at breakneck speed, causing a traffic accident, and beat the victim who chased him.
    The U.S. imperialists perpetrated barbarous air raids during the Korean war, massacring Koreans and reducing the country to ashes.
    The flying corps of their air force made 800 000 sorties and those of their marines and navy over 250 000 sorties against the northern half of Korea in the entire period of the war. They dropped bombs and napalm bombs totaling almost 600 000 tons or 3.7 times those dropped over the Japan proper during the Pacific war.
    Due to the U.S. barbarous air raids perpetrated during the Korean war 50 941 industrial establishments, 28 632 buildings of schools at all levels, 4 534 buildings of healthcare facilities including hospitals and clinics, 579 buildings of scientific research institutes, 8 163 buildings of media and cultural institutions and 2 077 226 dwelling houses were severely destroyed, 563 755 hectares of farmland devastated and 155 500 hectares of paddy and non-paddy fields decreased.
    Environment was also seriously polluted due to the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces' several decades-long presence in south Korea.
    The U.S. has desperately obstructed the reunification of Korea, blocked the independent development of the Korean nation and stood in the way of achieving its peace and prosperity.
    The human and material damage done to the Korean nation by the U.S. aggression and crimes against humanity amounts to at least 114 trillion U.S. dollars.
    The U.S. has committed too many crimes against the Korean nation to count for more than a hundred years, the memorandum said, adding there is no such country of barbarians in the world as the U.S.

South Korea itself is a massive abuser of human rights.

 In south Korea the National Security Law operates which totally criminalises all leftist, communist and pro reunification activities. This law is based on the laws of the Japanese when they were the colonial occupiers of Korea . The present NSL of south Korea dates back to the 1940s. In recent years a number of prominent pro-reunfication activists were arrested and jailed such as Lee Seok Ki, Ro Sui Hui and the Rev Han Sang Ryol.

In the past the leaders of the Revolutionary Party for Reunification as well the Strategic Liberation Party and People's Revolutionary Party were executed in south Korea. Today some long term unconverted prisoners remain in south Korea . I believe some of those jailed in the 1960s and 1970s are still in jail,

The U.S.-led foreign monopoly capital accounts for 30 percent of the south Korean stock market and big businesses and banks hold more than 50 percent of stocks, swaying over the south Korean economy. They rake in profits running to billions of U.S. dollars from stock dividends only every year.
    The U.S. monopoly capital stalks in south Korea, making businesses of south Korea go bankrupt and its people languish in unemployment and poverty.
    Onrush of excessive agricultural products from the U.S. threatens the local farmers numbering more than 2.8 million.
    The U.S. built military bases in different parts of south Korea and has staged madcap military exercises. This has deprived south Koreans of their cradle of life, devastating farmland, taking their lives and doing harm to human bodies and polluting environment.
    Young and middle-aged south Koreans are taken off as cannon fodder of the U.S. in its wars of aggression.
    There is no land in the world except for south Korea which is suffering such humiliation as offering funds as upkeep of the foreign occupation forces.
    South Koreans have no place where they may complain even though they are deprived of everything by the U.S. and their rights violated by it.
    Human rights are more crudely violated due to the puppet forces' medieval, tyrannical and unpopular rule.
    Political freedom and democratic rights are mercilessly infringed upon, among other things.
    The progressive party that made a legitimate appearance was forced to be disbanded, after being labeled "forces following the north" and a lawmaker from an opposition party was walked away from the "NA" building in broad daylight, on the charge of his alleged involvement in an "attempted rebellion."
    In the eight months of the present regime more than 23 790 articles were deleted from internet site for being "articles following the north", and hundreds of internet sites were forced to shut down.
    People demanding the right to existence were harshly suppressed.
    When workers in the field of railways staged a strike against the de-nationalization of railways at the end of last year, the fascist authorities hurled at least 5 000 police of over 60 companies to put it down the way they conducted an "anti-terrorist operation". They even stormed the building of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions without a confiscation and search warrant and walked off more than 130 people.
    The puppet forces' unpopular rule deteriorated the living of south Koreans from all walks of life, forcing them to undergo unspeakable sufferings.
    The number of the unemployed has reached over 4.5 million and that of underemployed who do part-time jobs for low wages for a day or a few months almost 10 million. People accounting for 11-19 percent suffer from chronic malnutrition.
    The number of those who commit suicides is more than 40 a day, topping the world list.
    Over 1.1 million or 20 percent of the aged roam about in the streets, begging for food or rummaging garbage bins, being forsaken by society and their children.
    Children kill their parents in cold blood for money and all other kinds of crimes including murder, rape and robbery are prevalent in south Korea.
    The south Korean puppet group's terrorism and abduction are another example of serious human rights abuses.
    It is working with bloodshot eyes to conduct terrorism and abduction of citizens of the DPRK by mobilizing the Intelligence Service, the Foreign Ministry, Unification Ministry and all other plot-breeding organizations. This unprecedented man-hunting is being commanded by Chongwadae.
    Agents of the puppet Intelligence Service and such anti-DPRK plot-breeding organizations including "Missionary Council of Duri Hana", "Good Friends" and "Association for Improving Human Rights in North" and terrorists and agents who go under the masks of religionists, businessmen and philanthropists, financed by the puppet authorities, go on the rampage in the northeastern area of China, abducting and luring citizens of the DPRK.
    Those citizens of the DPRK who had been abducted by the south Korean puppet forces and taken to south Korea are interrogated at the "central joint investigation center" made up of those concerned of the puppet Intelligence Service, Unification Ministry, Defense Ministry and police for six months. They receive "anti-communist brain-washing education" for three to four months, being subject to all kinds of violence at a concentration camp called "Hana Center".
    Those who had been taken to south Korea are also subject to sub-human mal-treatment and humiliation.
    Unable to eke out their living, they reside in places around mountaineering courses or garbage ground, picking up leftovers of food in day time and covering their bodies with leaves or rubbish at nights.
    The south Korean puppet forces did not hesitate to commit hair-raising atrocities against distressed citizens of the DPRK who went adrift to south Korea.
    Those whom the puppet forces did not send back to the north after kidnapping them when their boats were wrecked in the sea numbered more than 60 in the past five years.

Thus south Korea and the US are the biggest human rights abusers in the world !

ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

(UK KFA will publish an expanded version of this article in the coming months)