The North Korean government accused the Trump administration of being a “billionaires’ club” pushing a “policy of racism” while increasing inequality and denying citizens healthcare and a free press on Wednesday.
The attacks were published in a report titled the “White Paper on Human Rights Violation in the U.S. in 2017,” released by the Institute of International Studies in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, alleging that human rights conditions have deteriorated since Trump’s inauguration.
“Racial discrimination and misanthropy are serious maladies inherent to the social system of the U.S., and they have been aggravated since Trump took office,” the paper stated.
The report cited recent events that took place in Charlottesville, where a white nationalist rally that turned violent sparked national outrage.
“The racial violence that took place in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12 is a typical example of the acme of the current administration’s policy of racism,” the paper said.
North Korea’s paper also goes after the Trump administration for being a “billionaires’ club,” citing the inclusion of several cabinet members such as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnunchin, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, though according to Forbes’ rankings, neither Tillerson, Mnunchin, or Mattis are billionaires.
The report also said genuine freedoms of the press and expression did not exist in the U.S. and that crackdowns on the media have intensified over the past year.
The North Korean paper comes the day after President Trump’s State of the Union address where the president called out the Kim regime for its own human rights violations.
“No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea,” Trump said Tuesday night before introducing a North Korean defector who suffered at the hands of the regime.
Trump also branded North Korea’s leadership as “depraved,” warning Americans of the pending nuclear threat that could “very soon threaten our homeland.”
“We are waging a campaign of maximum pressure to prevent that from happening,” Trump said.
The paper published by North Korea was issued weeks before the main session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
