North Korea’s rare mention of Black Lives Matter protests in the United States has no relation to authentic concern for basic human rights of marginalized groups, a North Korean analyst said Thursday.
NEW YORK, June 11 (UPI) –North Korea’s rare mention of Black Lives Matter protests in the United States has no relation to authentic concern for basic human rights of marginalized groups, a North Korean analyst from a Japanese university said Thursday.
Pyongyang could be trying to distract from its own record of rights abuses, Sandra Fahy, an associate professor of anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo, said during a webcast hosted by The Korea Society.
North Korea has used movements like Black Lives Matter to blame the United States for Pyongyang’s setbacks, she said.
„North Korea does not believe in Black Lives Matter,“ Fahy said. „North Korea is interested in operationalizing the movement of Black Lives Matter“ to bring attention to its own position.
The Kim Jong Un regime wants the world to believe they are in the predicament they are in, because of „U. S. imperialism,“ Fahy said.
Last month during a regular evening news program, North Korea’s KCTV reported a „murder of a black person by a white police officer“ in Minneapolis.
State media also said protests had erupted to condemn the police’s „racist behavior against black people,“ and that as protests grew in size the governor of Minnesota had declared a state of emergency.
