News Comment #8

Human rights racket of US and West denounced

An article from the Pyongyang times, this one really amazed me.

Ignoring the fact that we have North Korean newspaper writing about human rights issues, the article itself looks like something that came straight out of the Cold War period.

It talks about how China argued that it is unfair for them to be under fire for human rights issues when the accusers have so many issues to deal with themselves, urging the UN to pay attention to it too.

The article them proceeds to explain how the west is always judged in a biased standard compared to other countries and how they have no respect for other foreign countries and cultures.

It feels a bit crazy too say it, but if you disconsider the hypocrisy and the lack of additional context in the article, the argument they make is somewhat true, even if it’s presented from a biased and opinionated point of view.

But what impressed me the most is the amount of Cold War terms they used in this small article, things like: ‘Non-Aligned Movement’, ‘Western Values’, or just labeling the west the way they do, is like you’re reading a letter from the past.

One thought on “News Comment #8

  1. fuglsang

    China isn’t wrong. The US is hypocritical when it comes to this issue.
    But, yes, the countries denouncing the US do all seem to have
    human rights problems. And to call human rights a “western value”
    says a lot about the speakers.

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