N. Korea denounces my report on its sponsorship of terrorism: a “sinister,” “plot-breeding,” “unpardonable … provocation.”
For days, since the launch of the report I wrote for the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, laying out the case for re-listing North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, I’d been watching KCNA, hoping I wouldn’t be snubbed. That’s why this 884-word May Day denunciation is a very special, emotional moment for me — the pinnacle of years of sinister plot-breeding, of careful research and delicately crafted Madonna analogies. I will go so far as to say that the prospect of this denunciation inspired me and drove me onward to complete the report.
Since its appearance, [HNRK] has insisted on linking the food shortage in the DPRK with “lack of elementary human rights” and compiled all nonsensical talks about its social system to meet the political interests of the U.S. conservative forces before floating wild rumors.
Such a plot-breeding body produced a conspiratorial document as part of its desperate campaign to label the DPRK a “sponsor of terrorism.” This is no more than the last-ditch effort of those hell-bent on the smear campaign against the DPRK.
Explicitly speaking, the above-said story about “the DPRK’s sponsoring of terrorism” is another unpardonable politically-motivated provocation against the DPRK. [KCNA]
Offhand, I can’t recall another case in which a report so likely caused an equal degree of upset within the North Korean government and the U.S. State Department, whose annual Country Reports on Terrorism is now overdue. You can read the full denunciation below the fold. Somewhere in there is the perfect quotation for my masthead.
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Update: Not surprisingly, the North Koreans didn’t read the report very carefully. I concluded that the Sony cyberattack was not a “violent” act, and therefore did not meet the legal definition of sponsoring international terrorism, but that the “Guardians of Peace” threat against theaters and moviegoers did.
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calendar>>May 1. 2015 Juche 104
KCNA Commentary Accuses U.S. of Working Hard to Re-list DPRK as “Sponsor of Terrorism”
Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) — The “Commission for Human Rights in North Korea”, a non-governmental human rights body of the U.S., released a report on April 27.
The report claimed that the DPRK is backing and dealing with the terrorist organizations and “states sponsoring terrorism” in Mideast and is involved in direct terrorism such as cyber attack on the Sony Pictures Entertainment of the U.S. It urged the U.S. administration and Congress to re-list the DPRK as a “sponsor of terrorism.”
The report is no more than a conspiratorial document that does not deserve even a passing note as it was cooked up by a U.S. individual organization which is unknown to the international community in a bid to gain its political clout. But the DPRK cannot but take a serious note of the U.S. moves in the light of the fact that the commission echoed the assertion of the U.S. hard-line conservative forces calling for ratcheting up pressure upon the DPRK now that the relations between it and the U.S. are at rock bottom.
Lurking behind the moves of the “Commission for Human Rights in North Korea” to make public the report and build up public opinion on it is its sinister purpose to tarnish the image of the DPRK by branding it as a “sponsor of terrorism” now that the U.S. has failed to “demonize” it over the “nuclear and human rights issue”.
Whenever the DPRK-U.S. relations and the situation got strained, the Republican Party and other conservative forces in the U.S. desperately called for re-listing the DPRK as a “sponsor of terrorism” since its removal from the list of “sponsors of terrorism” in 2008.
Notably, the present chief executive of the U.S. issued a “presidential executive order” to slap “additional sanctions” against the DPRK in the wake of the case of cyber attack on the Sony Pictures Entertainment. Pursuant to the order, heavyweights of the political camp and the military of the U.S. vied with each other to cry out for re-listing the DPRK as a “sponsor of terrorism” and imposing “toughest additional sanctions” upon it, revealing the sinister design to isolate and stifle it.
It should not be overlooked that against this backdrop, the “Commission for Human Rights in North Korea” opened to public a document peppered with lies and deception.
The “Commission” made up of scholars, former officials of the U.S. government and others who claim to be “experts on Korean affairs” has been keen on smear campaign against the DPRK. By doing so, it seeks to please the U.S. ruling forces and gain its political clout in a bid to prolong its remaining days.
Since its appearance, it has insisted on linking the food shortage in the DPRK with “lack of elementary human rights” and compiled all nonsensical talks about its social system to meet the political interests of the U.S. conservative forces before floating wild rumors.
Such a plot-breeding body produced a conspiratorial document as part of its desperate campaign to label the DPRK a “sponsor of terrorism.” This is no more than the last-ditch effort of those hell-bent on the smear campaign against the DPRK.
Explicitly speaking, the above-said story about “the DPRK’s sponsoring of terrorism” is another unpardonable politically-motivated provocation against the DPRK.
The DPRK government has made clear its principled stand to oppose all forms of terrorism and any support to it before the international community and consistently maintained it.
It held negotiations with the U.S. over the issue of terrorism several times in the past and released a joint statement clarifying its stand toward terrorism.
This being a hard reality, the dishonest forces of the U.S. let a plot-breeding body noisily trumpet about someone’s “sponsoring of terrorism,” which can never work on anyone as it is totally baseless.
The U.S. is the kingpin of international terrorism and a typical “sponsor of terrorism.”
The U.S. history is just the history of hideous terrorism.
When looking back upon the history of the founding of the U.S. and its history of bloody “independence war” and its course of battles fought to expand colonies overseas, the U.S. is precisely a terrorism sponsor regarding massacre, destruction and plunder as its only mode of existence.
It is none other than the U.S. which is now fanning up the whirlwind of terrorism in various parts of the world.
It has openly perpetrated terrorism to bring down the governments of the countries incurring its displeasure by force of arms and politically-motivated state-sponsored terrorism against them by employing conspiratorial methods.
It has pursued undisguised terrorism aimed at murder, aggression, war and horror in the international arena. It is also a “sponsor of terrorism” that has wantonly violated the UNSC resolution No. 137 that was adopted on Sept. 28, 2001.
It has provided terrorists with shelter after painting them as “political exiles” and “dissidents” in return for serving its purpose of “spreading U.S.-style freedom and democracy”.
The U.S. is kicking up such smear campaign by setting in motion the plot-breeding body made up of servants of the U.S. dishonest forces. This will only touch off criticism and derision of the international community.
It is, indeed, absurd and ridiculous for those forces to label the DPRK a “sponsor of terrorism.”