North Korea Fires Off Furious Statement After UN’s Human Rights Resolution Vote

The North Korean Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the human rights resolution adopted from the Third Committee of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly, saying it “distorting and fabricating the human rights situation.“

On Friday, in a press statement released through the Korean Central News Agency, the North Korean spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry addressed, “The DPRK Foreign Ministry brands the farce of adopting of the “human rights resolution” led by the U.S. and its followers as a grave politically-motivated provocation encroaching upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK, and strongly denounces and rejects the farce.”

Regarding the inclusion of the so-called three evil laws – the Reactionary Thought and Culture Exclusion Act, the Youth Education Guarantee Act, and the Pyongyang Dialect Protection Act in the resolution for the first time, the spokesperson criticized, “the U.S. and its followers took issue with the legislative measures to defend our sound culture and ethics from the U.S. and the Western corrupt and immoral cultural poisoning.“

He further condemned the action, describing it as a blatant violation of the UN Charter’s fundamental principles centered on respect for sovereignty and non-interference in countries’ internal affairs.

The spokesperson emphasized that it is a normal and legitimate right of a sovereign state for the DPRK to take all necessary measures to defend its sovereignty and protect the security and interests of its citizens, especially given the serious political and military threats from the U.S. and its allies. They stressed that no one has the right to slander these actions.

The North Korean official pledged that the DPRK would not overlook the U.S. and its followers’ daily increasing hostile acts. Instead, the country would make every effort to defend its socialist system, which the people of the DPRK hold as dear as their lives and genuine rights.

Previously, on Wednesday, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee convened at the UN headquarters in New York, where it passed a human rights resolution on North Korea by consensus, co-sponsored by 61 countries, including South Korea.

The resolution, slated for presentation at the upcoming UN General Assembly plenary session next month, includes for the first time criticisms of North Korea’s recently articulated hostile two-state theory and those above three “evil laws.”