UN General Assembly
2008

need to decisively enhance the authority of the General Assembly, in which all Member States exercise their equal rights. Aggression and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign States and acts committed under the cover of human rights protection should be completely rejected. Today, the worst peace-breaker and human rights violator in the world is none other than the United States, as evidenced by its armed invasion of sovereign countries and its unhesitating massacre of innocent civilians. Human rights are sovereign and independent rights. We urge Member States to remain vigilant in the face of the constant clamouring by the United States and other Western countries on the subject of human rights protection and not to accept the politicization of, or selectivity and double standards in human rights. The main reason that the question of relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Japan has been unresolved for over half a century lies in Japan’s failure to liquidate its past, which is stained with large-scale crimes. Japan is the only war criminal State that whitewashes the history of