Alwaght- North Korea has sharply criticized the US for violating human rights and spreading mayhem across the world.
North Korea’s state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper termed Washington as the "kingpin of human rights violations," adding that the US slaughtered people and caused countries to collapse.
The article titled "The author of the refugee crisis [in Europe] is the United States," stated that Washington’s "arbitrariness has dug the current grave for humanitarian values."
The war, which began 2001 "in the name of counterterrorism by a US-led NATO coalition in Afghanistan, has resulted in the present-day refugee problem," noted the newspaper in an article published on Monday.
The US and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.
Recently North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Ministry representative said the attention that the US is drawing to the human right's situation in North Korea is a way of concealing its own violations.
"After the resolution of the Iranian nuclear problem the United States has repeatedly said that attention must be focused on ‘the issue of human rights’ in DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] and more pressure on ‘the issue of human rights’ must be made," the representative said to the country’s KCNA news agency, adding that Washington has been using "political provocations" aimed to destroy North Korea’s power structure.
The representative of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said that if the United States and its allies continue using political provocations against Pyongyang, North Korea will respond with "extra rigid adequate measures."
The United States has been supporting South Korea in its stand-off with the North. Joint US-South Korea exercises, condemned by Pyongyang, have been held annually since 2011.
South and North Korea are still formally at war, as no peace treaty was ever signed after the Korean War of 1950-1953.