North Korea, which has been dubbed by the UN as “without parallel in the contemporary world” for human rights abuses, has seized on the recently-released Senate Intelligence Committee CIA torture report to condemn the United States’ record on human rights.
The United Nations, after issuing an extremely critical report on human rights abuses in North Korea, recommended that the security council refer them to the international criminal court for crimes against humanity.
North Korea took the Senate report as an opportunity to turn that recommendation around: “If (the security council) wants to discuss the human rights issue, it should … call into question the human rights abuses rampant in the US,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
China also got in the game. “China has consistently opposed torture. We believe that the US side should reflect on this, correct its ways and earnestly respect and follow the rules of related international conventions,” a government spokesman told a press briefing.
Last month, North Korea called the United States “a tundra of human rights, where extreme racial discrimination acts are openly practiced” in the wake of Ferguson protests.
From The Telegraph:
As well as the “inhuman torture practised by the CIA,” the spokesman cited the recent killings of black suspects by white police officers as another “despicable” strike against America’s human rights record.
