this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
156 points (100.0% liked)

news

24442 readers
840 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.

All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body.

If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include not just the twitter.com URL but also Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source (archive.today, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org). Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed.

Mass-tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken Markov chain bot will result in a comm ban.

Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.

Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned.

Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

"Trafficking in Persons Report" of United States under Fire

Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- Ri Jin, researcher of the Korea Association for Human Rights Studies, Thursday issued the following article titled "'Trafficking in Persons Report' highlights only the incurable maladies of the United States":

Recently, the U.S. Department of State released again a "report" that willfully assesses and classifies the practices of "human trafficking" in the DPRK and all other countries of the world.

The "report", as in the past, repeated its slander against the sovereign states, citing the data of "human trafficking" in other countries and labeling them as "model states" or "backward states" after grading the countries in order of the governmental efforts for eradicating "human trafficking" and their results.

Last year we had already branded the annual "Trafficking in Persons Report" of the U.S. which was run through with the obsolete fabricated data as a diagnosis of mental derangement of the U.S. addicted to the politicization of human rights.

The U.S. still tries to style itself a "human rights judge" though it is breaking the world's worst human rights record every year. It is stunning the public.

It is illogical that the U.S., where horrible shooting incidents occur at schools, churches and shops almost every day and tens of thousands of people are being taken to prisons due to the policy of expelling immigrants, assesses the situation of human rights in the world.

This is not the only thing.

It is, indeed, a tragicomedy that the U.S. government made a "judgment" upon the world situation of "human trafficking" at a time when the whole world is astonished at a U.S. millionaire's hideous underage sex trafficking.

The reality clearly proves that the U.S. "Trafficking in Persons Report" is nothing but a means for veiling its records of human rights violation and politicizing human rights to justify the pressure on different countries and interference in their internal affairs, and has nothing to do with the substantial efforts to eradicate human trafficking.

It is by no means fortuitous that not only the anti-U.S. and independent countries but also the "countries sharing their mind" with the U.S. are openly criticizing the U.S for its deceitful and contradictory gibberish about "human rights".

Today when the world aspires after multi-polarization, the DPRK and many other countries are directing efforts to promoting human rights conforming to their own history, culture and socio-economic environment.

The U.S. is well advised to clearly understand the reality and realize that the old-fashioned and inefficient behavior of a "human rights judge" is no longer appropriate, and it moves to internationalize and politicize the "human rights" issues of other countries would only result in self-harming consequences of bringing its miserable human rights situation to a focus.

We will in the future, too, not lend an ear to the U.S. deceptive "human rights" rhetoric but do our best to defend the most advantageous socialist system of our own style and the genuine rights and interests of the people. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.10.02.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/808ef0024f06d2846b521d478fa50c2c.kcmsf

https://archive.is/pm9pA (kcna)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] dead@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

The context of this is that the US published an annual global Human Trafficking report which listed DPRK as a tier 3 country, worst rank. US also gives tier 3 rank to China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia.

This article from KCNA is a response to the US state department report. KCNA is the state news agency of DPRK. The article mocks the US for being a judge of human trafficking while openly covering up human trafficking. I believe "the whole world is astonished at a US millionaire's hideous underage sex trafficking" is a clear reference to Epstein.

Even DPRK is saying "Release the Epstein files".

https://archive.is/zkrDA (state department report on human trafficking in north korea, 2025)

spoilerThis article has a bit more context. Keep in mind, that NKNews is a anti-DPRK propaganda site.

The U.S. has designated North Korea as one of the world’s worst human trafficking offenders for the 23rd consecutive year, citing its widespread use of forced labor and its dispatch of workers overseas.

The DPRK is one of 13 countries categorized as a Tier 3 country, the lowest rank, in the State Department’s 2025 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report published on Monday.

The U.S. has published the annual TIP Report under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) since 2001, classifying countries into Tiers 1 through 3 based on their efforts to meet minimum standards for eliminating trafficking. Countries in Tier 3 are those that neither meet the standards nor make significant efforts to do so.

North Korea has remained in Tier 3 every year since 2003. Other countries in Tier 3 this year included Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Iran and Russia. South Korea retained its Tier 1 status for the second-consecutive year.

https://archive.is/HUVRi (nknews)

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago (8 children)

How the fuck is the DPRK worst rank in human trafficking if it's a hermit kingdom that you can't get into or out of? You can't be closed and also somehow incredible human traffickers.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this junk article about scary North Koreans infiltrating the remote work pipeline.

Basically, North Koreans are so poor they are stealing remote jobs from Americans. This is actually very scary, because they're spies for the North Korean government. But, also, the North Korean government is lacking behind in their cyber-capabilities. Though, they're also using cutting-edge AI tactics regular people can't detect.

The article is functionally a remote working hit piece but implies many different, conflicting things about NK.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

hit piece but implies many different, conflicting things about NK.

Oh, so a regular old slow news day in the West, then. That tracks.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments (16 replies)