The very secretive state of North Korea has told U.S
President Barack Obama to focus on leaving the White
House rather than North Korea’s track record of human
rights abuses.
after the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday imposed
additional sanctions on North Korea for it’s flagrant
abuse of human rights.
The sanctions by OFAC which includes blacklisting
seven North Korean citizens, North Korea leader Kim
Jong-un’s sister among them, were being enacted
alongside the United State Department’s “Report on
Serious Human Rights Abuses or Censorship in North
Korea,”
In November, a report was released showing satellite
images of up 120,000 people including children as
young as 7 subjected to forced labor, torture, starvation,
rape and death and a 2014 UN report estimated that
“hundreds of thousands of political prisoners” have died
in North Korean.
KCNA, North Korea’s run media agency swiftly reacted
to the U.S’ sanctions saying:
“The Obama group can hardly have a sound sleep,
seized with the extreme uneasiness after facing the
undeniable strategic setback.
Worse still, they are hit hard by the public.
Much upset
by this situation, the Obama group have gone so foolish
as to kick up the ‘human rights’ racket against the
DPRK.”
“The US is not qualified to talk about somebody’s
‘human rights’ as it is the world’s worst human rights
abuser and a tundra of human rights.
“Obama would be well advised not to waste time taking
issue with others’ ‘human rights issue(s)’ but make
good arrangements for packing in the White House.
“He had better repent of the pain and misfortune he has
brought to so many Americans and other people of the
world by creating the worst human rights situation in
the US during his tenure of office.”
Amnesty International said in a statement:
“The inmate population has been gradually eliminated
through deliberate starvation, forced labor, executions,
torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights,”
“These camps constitute the cornerstone of the
country’s large infrastructure dedicated to political
repression and social control that enables widespread
and systematic human rights abuses”
