– Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DPRK –
The spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized the hypocrisy of the U.S. in a blog posted with regard to a Washington Post article on the Californian state authorities who mobilized 395 prisoners for suppressing a large fire.
Noting that U.S. public figures had accused the Chinese government of “forced labor” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, she referred to the adoption of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021 and banning of imports from this region.
In this context, she continued, it is doubtful whether the U.S. Congress has even tabled a sanctions bill against the Californian state authorities, private companies and other parties concerned with the mobilization of the prisoners. She expressed disgust at such ignorance and hypocrisy.
In fact, frequent cases of the worst human rights violations are witnessed in the U.S. – shootings, racial discrimination, child labor and exploitation, bipolarization where “the rich get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer”, the list goes on. In 2024 alone, more than 16, 000 were killed in over 490 cases of gun violence.
It’s easier to see the faults of others than to detect your own.
The U.S. poses itself as a “human rights judge”, finding fault with others’ “human rights issue”, while keeping silent about their own serious human rights issues. This classic behavior of the guilty party filing the suit first is surely a tragicomedy that evokes everyone’s ridicule.
(Republished from the original at mfa.gov.kp)