North Korea Threatens ‘Merciless Punishment’ against U.S. Human Rights Envoy

With pouring out harsh words, North Korea strongly criticized the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights, Julie Turner, who is currently visiting Japan and Korea on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the report by the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) highlighting the horrific human rights abuses by the North Korean regime.

A spokesperson for the North Korean Human Rights Research Association revealed extreme resentment towards Special Envoy Turner in a statement titled, “No matter how much the human rights special envoy rages, it won’t comfort the defeatist psychology of the Biden administration,” released through the Korean Central News Agency on the 15th.

The statement said, “U.S. State Department North Korean Human Rights Special Envoy Julie Turner has embarked on a tour of Japan and puppet South Korea,” and “Before her tour, Turner exposed her most heinous criminal intentions to overthrow our state by raising human trash as future leaders, even after criticizing our sacred national laws and talking about the need for infiltration of espionage information into our territory and some accountability.”

“By doing so, Julie Turner has admitted herself as the number one executor of the current U.S. administration’s illegal and reckless anti-DPRK policy and become the first target in front of our fully armed anti-U.S. front with a strong will to respond,” it added.

The statement also mocked, “No matter how much the leading slave to the politics of the Biden administration wanders around with an over involving, it is too insufficient to soothe the anxiety and frustration of policy failure against the DPRK, which doesn’t let him sleep soundly even for a day due to the overwhelming sense of defeat.”

The statement claimed, “Human rights ruckus is the first and foremost tool of aggression, a political weapon of mass destruction of the United States to realize interference in internal affairs and the overthrow of systems against sovereign nations.”

It continued, “We will more boldly carry out the battle to protect the sovereign rights and true human rights of the people from the U.S. hostile policy and threats of aggression, and we will bring down a merciless sledgehammer of punishment on human trash like Julie Turner.”

Special Envoy Turner, who is on a visit to Japan and Korea from the 12th to the 22nd, is scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yul in Korea and attend the 10th-anniversary event of the publication of the COI report hosted by the Seoul UN Human Rights Office.