calendar>>April 18. 2009 Juche 98
Rodong Sinmun Brands U.S. as Kingpin of Human Rights Abuses
Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries a signed commentary saying that the U.S. finds itself in a sorry pickle as it is forced to be judged by other country due to the grave human rights abuses committed by high-ranking officials during the Bush administration years.

Of late a newspaper of the U.S. reported that Spain set about making inquiries into the truth for criminal prosecution against high-ranking officials of the Bush administration who allowed by law the torture on prison inmates of the U.S. military base in Guantanamo in violation of international laws including the U.N. convention's ban on torture, the commentary notes, and goes on:

Things have come to such a pretty pass that six former high-ranking officials of the U.S. including former Attorney General Gonsales may be summoned to the Spanish court.

The U.S. is all in a flurry for it. Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy of the U.S. Feith who is one of suspects malignantly slandered the inquiries to be made by Spain, terming them groundless acts and attempts to threaten the U.S. administration.

But this tragicomedy is ridiculous enough to provoke laughter of the world people and put shame on the U.S. as it is forced to take off its coat as an "international human rights judge" and show its dirty true colors as a brutal human rights abuser under the eyes of the world.

The U.S. has been engrossed in finding fault with this or that country turning over leaves of the "book" recording the "human rights issues" in other countries every year and, moreover, it used the records as a means for meddling in the internal affairs of other countries while shelving huge human rights abuses committed by it so far. This is the worst shabby and wicked bad habit peculiar to the U.S.

The U.S. should certainly be forced to be punished by history sooner or later for its criminal acts infringing upon the sovereignty of other countries under the pretext of the "human rights issue".

The more human rights abuses the U.S. commits in the world arena, the more the international community will become protesting against them and demanding that the U.S. be taken to international justice.

The U.S. would be well advised to fundamentally eliminate the root cause of such crimes, looking back upon its human rights abuses and infringements on the sovereignty of other countries with the shame it is suffering in the international arena as a momentum.

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