North Korea seized on the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. to condemn the United States as a “graveyard of human rights,” the Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday.
“The US is indeed a country wantonly violating human rights where people are subject to discrimination and humiliation due to their race, and are in constant fear that they may get shot at any moment,” a spokesman from North Korea’s foreign ministry said, as quoted by state news agency KCNA.
The spokesman added that the US should “mind its own business” rather than interfering in other countries’ affairs.
The fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer on Aug. 9 sparked over a week of heated protests against law enforcement. Officers overseeing the protests used tear gas and rubber bullets at times to control the demonstrators.
The United States regularly condemns North Korea for human rights abuses. The isolated nation is believed to be holding up to 120,000 political prisoners, according to the AFP.
Man, and here I thought Egypt throwing shade at us was embarrassing.
For as much as we slag on North Korea, and as much as they deserve it, they kinda got a point here. A fun read about a comic artist’s experiences in North Korea is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_(comics)
Russia and Iran are also trolling the US.
And deservedly so.
But don’t worry - a few flowery speeches here and there, maybe a few bills that go nowhere - and we’ll get right back to killin’ black “folks”.
Cause that’s how the US of A rolls.
You know what the worst part of Russia, China, Iran, Egypt, and North Korea’s hypocrisy is? They’re absolutely right. Granted, the worst abuses tend to come from the local and state level and it’s been the federal government intervening, but still.
This same theme was some of the Soviet Union’s most effective anti-American propaganda, “this is what America says, and this is what America actually does.”
Well it is the pot calling the kettle black, but the US has been pulling this crap for decades.
People in glass houses… as they say,