While the world is preparing for the upcoming festive celebration with Christmas trees been decorated around the globe, the world spotlight had turn to North Korea once more.
The communist state was accused of carrying out a cyber attack on Sony Pictures that exposed embarrassing emails and scuttled the release of “The Interview”, a movie with a fictional plot to kill the communist state leader Kim Jong-Un.
The UN Security Council opened a talk to discuss the North Korea right abuse. Although opposed by China, the 15-member council successfully convened to inquire on the regime’s brutality and abuses of the human right.
The UN inquiry reported various cases of torture, executions and rape taking place in the North Korean prison camps. While we might feel that this action is justified giving the nature of North Korean closed policy, many of the critics said that this action shows a pure double standard of the UN.
The US that have been championing the human right cause is also committing the same abuse on human right. Recently, President Obama once again pledged to shut down controversial US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay after he made that similar promise more that six years ago. The US government have been charged guilty for its widespread human right violations at Guantanamo Bay prison camp with its practice of administrative detention.
That is why the spotlight on North Korea in this Christmas about the severe internet outage, human right abuse and cyber attack was seen as a pure political move to strengthen US geopolitical influence in the region. There is no way that US can be seen as trying to solve the human right abuses as long as they themselve doesn’t stop their human-right-abusing facility.