WHO criticises Amnesty report on DPR Korean health system

As I reported a few days ago, Amnesty International released a sensationalist report claiming that the DPR Korean health system is a complete mess, even though the World Health Organisation a few months earlier gave it a commendation. The WHO has now come out criticising the Amnesty report, rightfully claiming that it was mainly anecdotal, with stories dating back to 2001, and not up to the U.N. agency’s scientific approach to evaluating health care. “All the facts are from people who aren’t in the country,” WHO representative Paul Garwood told reporters in Geneva about Amnesty's report. “There’s no science in [Amnesty's] research". Garwood also went on to say that from the hundreds of field missions in DPR Korea conducted by WHO, “none have come back reporting the kinds of things in the Amnesty report in terms of payment for services”.

Now, will we be seeing this being reported widely in our media? Probably not, as the presentation of facts like these distorts the ideological propagandistic image the West has of DPR Korea. Again, sensationalist anecdotes triumph over more reliable sources.