N. Korea: Public Execution Video a “Fabrication”

KCNA has responded to CNN’s “Undercover in the Secret State:”

“The video tape is full of sheer lies negating the popular and class nature and the democratic principle of the DPRK’s laws and tarnishing its image from A to Z,” the North’s official KCNA news agency said in a commentary. . . .

KCNA said people “who know about the DPRK even a bit claimed that the way of speaking and dressing of those who appeared on the screen and the background against which the scenes were shot were quite different from the reality in the DPRK, a clear proof of a sheer fabrication.”

Given how little media attention the N. Korea human rights story has received thus far, the Reuters story apparently felt compelled to include this backgrounder:

North Korea has been accused of gross human rights violations, including live human testing of biological agents and operating prison camps. A UN General Assembly committee on November 17 adopted a resolution expressing serious concern about the state of human rights in the secluded state. South Korea abstained from voting from concern for provoking the North. China, the North’s ally, voted against.

The overall effect of the denial is to draw even more attention to the charges, and to charges, and to the role of neighboring nations in covering for the regime’s inhumanity toward its people–probably not what Pyongyang would have hoped.

[Post back-dated one day.]