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| Subject: Texan says he entered N. Korea illegally, slams U.S. Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:11 pm | |
| A Texan who illegally slipped into North Korea last month held a news conference there Sunday to slam the United States on human rights issues.
Arturo Pierre Martinez, of El Paso, said he entered the country from China but provided few specifics. Martinez, reading from a statement at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang, said he wanted to "reveal some facts about the United States' imperialist influence and dominance, as well as its corrupt and threatening practices, which has proven itself to have little to no regard for human rights or serving the greater good." Martinez, 29, ripped the United States on a wide range of issues, ranging from prisons privatization to campaign fundraising to the CIA. UFOs also got a shout-out. But human rights were front and center. "The illegal war carried out against the nation of Iraq serves as a perfect example of how the U.S. government acts like a Mafia enterprise by criminally plundering entire nations of their resources, strategic reserves and economies ... without a code of ethics," he said. Martinez's news conference, which he said he sought, came two days after Pyongyang bitterly defended itself against a United Nations resolution accusing North Korean leaders of crimes against humanity. That statement came on the heels of a U.S. Senate report detailing the use of torture on terrorism suspects. "The kingpin of such human rights violation is pointing its finger at other countries over their human rights records, and this is the height of hypocrisy," North Korea said in its statement Friday.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/14/north-korea-american/20392493/ |
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