The sanctions by OFAC which
includes blacklisting seven North Korean citizens, North Korea leader Kim
Jong-un’s sister among them, were being enacted alongside the United State
Department’s “Report on Serious Human Rights Abuses or Censorship in North
Korea.”
The very secretive state of
North Korea has told U.S President Barack Obama to focus on leaving the White
House rather than North Korea’s track record of human rights abuses after the
US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on
Monday imposed additional sanctions on North Korea for it’s flagrant abuse of
human rights.
In November, a report was
released showing satellite images of up 120,000 people including children as
young as 7 subjected to forced labour, torture, starvation, rape and death and
a 2014 UN report estimated that “hundreds of thousands of political prisoners”
have died in North Korean.
KCNA, North Korea’s run
media agency swiftly reacted to the U.S’ sanctions saying:
“The Obama group can hardly
have a sound sleep, seized with the extreme uneasiness after facing the
undeniable strategic setback. Worse still, they are hit hard by the public.
Much upset by this situation, the Obama group have gone so foolish as to kick
up the ‘human rights’ racket against the DPRK.”
“The US is not qualified to
talk about somebody’s ‘human rights’ as it is the world’s worst human rights
abuser and a tundra of human rights.
“Obama would be well
advised not to waste time taking issue with others’ ‘human rights issue(s)’ but
make good arrangements for packing in the White House.
“He had better repent of
the pain and misfortune he has brought to so many Americans and other people of
the world by creating the worst human rights situation in the US during his
tenure of office.”
Amnesty International said
in a statement:
“The inmate population has
been gradually eliminated through deliberate starvation, forced labor,
executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights,”
“These camps constitute the
cornerstone of the country’s large infrastructure dedicated to political
repression and social control that enables widespread and systematic human
rights abuses”
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