“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)
Common Korea W
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)
spoiler
This 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)
So irs a closed off super secretive surveillance state where everyone harvests rice while singing songs in praise of the Glorious Leader to go home to a meal of rats and brainwashing but it’s also a hub of black market activity?
errm, two things can be true at once
