File this one under “Things you definitely didn’t already know about ten times over.” Last year the United Nations established a dedicated board of inquiry that set out to investigate alleged crimes against humanity being perpetrated in the infamously secretive military state of North Korea. Their report, released in February of this year, was astonishingly damning. But now North Korea has come out on the front foot in defence of their nation, claiming that whilst they may not exactly be perfect, they’re nowhere near as bad as the United States.
The UN’s report found compelling evidence of scores of atrocities that have been, or are being committed in North Korea, that included “extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation.”
Never one to take things like these lying down, North Korea issued a statement directly addressing the US, and not the UN – with N being four keys away from S on your standard QWERTY keyboard, ruling out an accidental typo – that addressed the US as “the world’s worst human rights abuser,” and brings up, among other things, the George Zimmerman case as an example of how the US is an overall worse place than North Korea.
President Obama’s apparent penchant for opulent luxury at the expense of his people was also lambasted by the statement, “Obama, indulges himself in luxury almost every day, squandering hundred millions of dollars on his foreign trip in disregard of his people’s wretched life.” Because how dare he spend all that money on attempting to foster global relationships? His money should be going to the people, like any responsible leader does.
You know, after making sure the leader’s residence has horse stables, running tracks, shooting ranges, auto racing courses, complex systems of secret tunnels and private underground rail stations installed, that is. Because that shit’s essential expenditure, after all.
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