U.S., Western Countries Are to Blame for World's Biggest Refugee Crisis: DPRK Human Rights Institute

Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The Human Rights Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences issued a white paper Saturday clarifying the root cause of the world's biggest refugee crisis getting serious day by day on the occasion of June 20, the World Refugees Day. Now that the number of refugees has far exceeded 65 million worldwide, it has become one of the most serious problems faced by the international community in the socio-political and humanitarian fields to tackle this and guarantee their rights, the white paper said, and went on: The root cause of the unprecedented refugee crisis today is attributable to the U.S. and other Western countries' foreign policy for aggression and plunder. The refugee crisis which has thrown humankind into great fear and uneasiness in the new century is an inevitable product of the "war on terrorism" which the U.S. has expanded worldwide by inveigling the Western countries after setting it as one important component of its foreign policy. The occurrence of the unprecedented refugee crisis worldwide today is directly linked with the "coloring revolution" actively pushed forward by the U.S. and the West. The "coloring revolution" is one of important foreign policies of the U.S. and the West aimed at bringing all countries and nations under their domination and assimilating them under the signboard of "freedom" and "democracy". Clarifying it is none other than the U.S. and other Western countries that created the biggest refugee crisis and cruelly violate their rights, the white paper continued: Even recently the U.S. administration made public an executive order on immigration preventing refugees from entering the U.S. by for 120 days. This executive order is full of discrimination against Muslims from the Mid-east and Africa. Due to the U.S. and other Western countries' sealing of borders and deliberate persecution, large contingents of stranded refugees spend days and months outside in border areas of those countries without the provision of elementary living conditions. The U.S. and other Western countries which caused such an inhuman incident and pushed the refugee issue into a grave phase should not evade their responsibilities but face due punishment at international human rights court. -0-