PYONGYANG, March 21 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has recently countered accusation of alleged human rights violations in the country by disclosing the human rights situation in the United States and other Western countries, said local media Tuesday.
Pyongyang did this at the 34th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 15, the DPRK's official media reported.
The Korean Central News Service quoted DPRK delegates at the session as saying that the United States is "the worst-ever tundra of human rights in the world and the ringleader and the mastermind of human rights violations."
"The U.S.-led human rights violations abroad are in particular appalling the whole world. Wherever the U.S. sets its bloody foot in, there follow endless streams of blood of humankind. Counted among them are the establishment of scores of overseas secret prisons, their brutal torture atrocities and massive civilian casualties and 65.3 million refugees resulting from the aggression against sovereign states committed by the U.S. under the pretext of 'war on terrorism,'" it said.
"In the member states of the EU such unprecedented, uncontrollable state-sponsored human rights violations as Islamophobia, xenophobia and minority abuse, revival of neo-Nazism, and the massive deportation, forced repatriation and forfeiture of property of tens of thousands of refugees" are getting momentum, it added.
"The EU would be well advised to get rid of its bad habit of backbiting others and fix its own deplorable human rights situation first," it said.
