North Korea Slams US Over Racism, Human Rights Violations

The Institute of International Studies in North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, has released a white paper on Wednesday detailing the "opulent" and "racist" nature of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.

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The paper, titled "White Paper on Human Rights Violations in the U.S. in 2017," talks about how the Trump administration has played an instrumental role in suppressing the "freedom" of its people and that of the press. 

“Racial discrimination and misanthropy are serious maladies inherent to the social system of the U.S., and they have been aggravated since Trump took office," the white paper said, according to Reuters. 

"The racial violence that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12 is a typical example of the acme of the current administration’s policy of racism. The U.S., the 'guardian of democracy’ and the ‘human rights champion,’ is kicking up the human rights racket but it can never camouflage its true identity as the gross violator of human rights."

The white paper, which was issued a couple of weeks before the main annual session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, also pointed out that more people have joined the ranks of the unemployed and the homeless. It added that the United States is one of the few countries that has failed to offer paid maternity leave and many sick citizens cannot afford to pay their medical fees. 

The DPRK noted that Trump's cabinet of "public servants at the level of deputy secretary and above" comprises of "billionaires from conglomerates" with assets of over US$14 billion, referring to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

Critics have compared Trump's State of the Union speech he delivered Tuesday night, in which he talked about the "depraved character of the North Korean regime," to that of former President George W. Bush's notorious "axis of evil" speech where he attacked Iraq, Iran and the DPRK.

"North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland,” Trump said in the speech. “We need only look at the depraved character of the North Korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it could pose to America and to our allies."

The DPRK's white paper on U.S. human rights abuses noted, "The U.S. is a living hell as elementary rights to existence are ruthlessly violated."