North Korea: Life in US is a 'living hell'

[okaawhatever]

After being the subject of global scorn following a highly critical UN report on its human rights abuses, North Korea has released a "news analysis" on the US human rights record.

Calling the US "the world's worst human rights abuser", the state-run Korea Central News Agency says the nation is "a living hell, as elementary rights to existence are ruthlessly violated".

SNIP

"The number of impoverished people increased to 46.5 millions last year," they continue, "and one sixth of the citizens and 20-odd% of the children are in the grip of famine in New York City."

While the US burns, they say, US President Barack 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".

Continued at Link:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27285885

[monmouth3]

1. If Rodman goes there again, he shouldn't be allowed back in...n/t

[jberryhill]

2. Why?

[Scootaloo]

3. Because reasons! n/t

[jberryhill]

6. Oh

Well, that clears it up.

A US citizen has an absolute right to enter the US - even without a passport (although you'll get hung up for a while proving your status).

Absent voluntary renunciation of citizenship, there is no "ew that person has opinions I really hate" basis for the denial of the right of entry to the US.

[Scootaloo]

4. Well, I wouldn't say it's great, but i'll take it over North Korea, thanks

I'd also take a hut made of sticks in the wild of Kamchatka over North Korea, for that matter.

North Korea's still leading Utah, though

[LadyHawkAZ]

28. Shameful,

But sadly correct.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Luckily, Noth Korea has never had famine

Oh...wait...

Today, North Koreans starve to death by the dozens, maybe the hundreds. But during the great famine of the 1990s, between 600,000 and 2.5 million people died of hunger. According to the commission’s report, the North Korean regime, then headed by Kim Jong-il, obstructed the delivery of aid to the hungriest regions until 1997, and punished those who tried to earn, buy, steal or smuggle in enough food to survive. The regime was “well aware of the country’s deteriorating food situation” as it stocked airfields, reactors and palaces, rather than food stores.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/opinion/pyongyangs-hunger-games.html?_r=0

[wandy]

7. It's good to know that in all matters of Obama, North Korea agrees............

with Fox News.

Do you think they use the same writers?

[arely staircase]

8. they have fox anf RT in NK? nt

[pampango]

9. NK blasted human rights in SK: North Korea publishes white paper criticising human rights in South

North Korea has announced the publication of a white paper criticising the human rights situation in South Korea, condemning the Park Geun Hye administration as “puppets under the rule of an American colony”.

In a piece published by the official newspaper Rodong Sinmun on 30 April entitled, Denounce the South Chosun Human Rights Situation - the Worst in the World, it was written: “The South says it has a ‘government’ and ‘law,’ but they are nothing more than puppets. They are merely a tool used by the Americans in their colonial rule.”

“The people of South Chosun are deprived of everything thanks to America. When human rights are infringed upon there is not even a place you can go to complain."

The statement comes as international interest grows in the North Korean human rights situation in the wake of the recent report by the UN inquiry detailing evidence of systemic and widespread human rights violations perpetrated by the regime.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/north-korea-human-rights-south-korea

[MohRokTah]

10. So, the guy who wrote the "news analysis"?

Anybody know his DU name?

[okaawhatever]

14. I could take a few guesses. lolz. nt

[hfojvt]

18. beat me to it

sarcasm, but some seem to agree about the "living hell".

Or say they do.

[SidDithers]

11. "Paging Hannah Bell. Red courtesy phone for Hannah Bell"...

Or HiPointDem, or El_Johns, or whatever new name they're using now.

Sid

[Turbineguy]

12. Very drol

let's hope they remember, without the US republican party, they haven't got a leg to stand on.,

[Adrahil]

13. In before one of the usual suspects...

Tells us we'd realize they are right if we quite listening to the propaganda form the corporate US media.

[okaawhatever]

15. ??????

[Adrahil]

22. Were your ears burning?

[okaawhatever]

24. No, I genuinely didn't understand what you were trying to say. Were you saying people would come

along and defend the N Korea report? And claim that those who don't agree with the N Korea report feel that way because we don't read independent news media like WSWS and op-ed news?

[Texasgal]

19. Please don't tell me

that there are "usual suspects" defending that crap on DU. Please.. Please!

[Adrahil]

21. I might be exaggerating when it comes to the PRK

[jberryhill]

26. It's happened

But, hey, it's the Internet.

[Wounded Bear]

16. As opposed to NK, which is a Dying Hell...

[Nevernose]

17. Pretty standard communist propaganda

I've got a friend who lived in the Soviet Union (he and his family eventually left to become circus workers here in America). He says his favorite part of the news was the few minutes they spent every night, showing pictures of Americans homeless or destitute with captions that read "This is democracy" or "This is Freedom."

Guy still lives here, because that's where his parents made him move, but claims he's still a communist, if not a fan of the Soviet system. He says when he lived in the USSR things weren't always wonderful, but no one was homeless and everyone had a job.

[dionysus]

20. meanwhile somewhere, hannah bell sparks up a cig and grins ruthlessly, wreathed in satisfaction...

[Dirty Socialist]

23. Wow!

Now THAT'S PROJECTION!

[woo me with science]

25. I'm more interested in comparisons to Finland, Sweden, Australia.

We can always depend on Western corporate media to trumpet any story that urges us to compare ourselves to the most hellish places on earth. Meanwhile, we almost *never* hear about how people are living in countries with social and economic systems that are much more humane than ours.

When you're comparing yourself to North Korea, it's easy to pretend that things are going fine in the good old USA.

[Rex]

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