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pampango

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Wed Apr 30, 2014, 07:10 PM Apr 2014

North Korea publishes white paper criticising human rights in South

North Korea has announced the publication of a white paper criticising the human rights situation in South Korea, condemning the Park Geun Hye administration as “puppets under the rule of an American colony”.

In a piece published by the official newspaper Rodong Sinmun on 30 April entitled, Denounce the South Chosun Human Rights Situation - the Worst in the World, it was written: “The South says it has a ‘government’ and ‘law,’ but they are nothing more than puppets. They are merely a tool used by the Americans in their colonial rule.”

“The people of South Chosun are deprived of everything thanks to America. When human rights are infringed upon there is not even a place you can go to complain."

The statement comes as international interest grows in the North Korean human rights situation in the wake of the recent report by the UN inquiry detailing evidence of systemic and widespread human rights violations perpetrated by the regime.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/north-korea-human-rights-south-korea

That's got to sting in Seoul.

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North Korea publishes white paper criticising human rights in South (Original Post) pampango Apr 2014 OP
Great Onion Headline n/t lordsummerisle Apr 2014 #1
Anybody have that nighttime satellite image of the Korean peninsula? Throd Apr 2014 #2
Talk about being irony-impaired...knr joeybee12 Apr 2014 #3
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