The North Korean Foreign Ministry issued a scathing commentary on the debate in the United States regarding the extension of the moratorium on evictions, which was adopted during the coronavirus pandemic, writes Newsweek.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry published an article entitled “Miserable American Society, Where Even the Elementary Right to Existence Is Ruthlessly Violated.” Representatives of the department spoke out against “the hypocrisy of the United States, which criticizes the situation with human rights in other countries, while the country is facing an impending crisis at home.”
“Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their precious lives due to the US failure to respond properly to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to these shocking events, living people wander in despair and pain, without even having the elementary right to exist. This is the situation in which the United States is now”, the document says.
According to a study by the Aspen Institute and the Eviction Protection Project, an estimated 6.5 million families are currently being forcibly evicted from their homes due to inability to pay rent due to insufficient income caused by the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The administration of US President Joe Biden and Congress began to shift responsibility to others, with the former insisting that the budget issue is within the purview of Congress, and the latter claiming that he had not received a notice from the first that the ‘eviction moratorium’ was about to expire”, – writes the edition.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an emergency extension of the 60-day ban on COVID-19 hotspots, but the Foreign Office said the vast majority of Americans unable to pay their rent “spend every day in anxiety and panic, fearing the unexpected eviction”.
“Despite this reality, the United States, instead of taking measures to ensure the elementary right of residents to exist, is interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, brazenly poking its nose in the human rights situation in other countries”, the ministry concluded.