"2017 Report on Human Rights Abuses in South Korea" Issued

Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The National Reunification Institute of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Wednesday issued the "2017 Report on Human Rights Abuses in south Korea" to reveal the hideous crimes against humanity and human rights committed in south Korea this year. The report deals with sad lot of the south Korean people who fell victim to the U.S. colonial rule. South Korea suffers great economic damage owing to the U.S. policy for plunder. The report points to the violated democratic rights and the life of south Koreans in dire destitution. The south Korean people of every stratum demanded the reinstatement of democratic freedom and right, strongly calling for releasing the prisoners of conscience who fell victim to the fascist misrule of traitor Park Geun Hye's group and canceling the measure to outlaw the Teachers Union of south Korea (Jongyojo) after the change of the regime. The report held that a fierce wind of confrontation with fellow countrymen rampant in south Korea has been accompanied with violation of human rights. When the puppet authorities talked as if they could make a fresh change in favor of improvement of inter-Korean relations, the Family Movement for Realizing Democracy in south Korea and other progressive bodies demanded the present regime immediately send back Kim Ryon Hui and other DPRK women employees who suffered from the policy of confrontation of the puppet conservatives saying that this was a foremost task facing the regime for the sake of reconciliation and unity of the nation and to recover the downtrodden human rights and democracy. The report referred to the fact that the south Korean puppet army, colonial mercenary army of the U.S., is the exhibition of human rights abuses with the most grave problems. The human rights issue of south Korea can never be solved as long as the U.S. colonial domination and occupation exist and the puppet authorities' pro-U.S. sycophancy and policy of confrontation with the compatriots and unpopular rule continue in south Korea. -0-