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U.S. not qualified to talk about human rights issue: DPRK official

29 May 2012 20:19 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Tuesday that the United States is not qualified to talk about the human rights issue of independent countries, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the 2011 human rights report released last Thursday by the U.S. was a "political tool" to realize America’s strategy for world domination by slandering other countries’ human rights issues.

The DPRK was always mentioned in the report as the U.S. antagonized the country and tried to "isolate and stifle" it by criticizing the DPRK’s human rights issues, the statement said.

Washington has no moral qualifications to raise the human rights issue to the DPRK as long as the U.S. sticks to its "anachronistic hostile policy" towards the DPRK, the statement said.

The U.S. on May 24 released its controversial annual human rights report, entitled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011.

The report claimed that "overall human rights conditions remained extremely poor" in countries, including Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Syria, Belarus and China.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman last Friday described the U.S. government report on China’s human rights practices as "biased."

The spokesman urged the United States to stop interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.