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The US House of Representatives has adopted a resolution condemning socialism, specifying North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as criminals.
The resolution contained content condemning the socialist system, citing the fact that mass killings and starvation occurred under the socialist system in the past.
Seung-mo Nam is a correspondent in Washington.
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The US House of Representatives held a plenary session today (3rd) and passed a resolution condemning the fear of socialism submitted by the Republican Party.
With 328 votes in favor and 86 against, 109 Democrats also voted in favor.
The resolution condemned socialism as leading to the concentration of power that inevitably flows into totalitarian domination and dictatorship, which has led to the deaths of more than 100 million people worldwide, as well as repeated starvation and mass killings.
It was stated that socialist thinkers such as Lenin and Stalin in the former Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, and Fidel Castro in Cuba committed great crimes in history.
He then pointed out that tens of millions of people died in the Bolshevik Revolution and 15 to 55 million people died of starvation in China's Great Leap Forward.
As for North Korea, it criticized that up to 3.5 million people died of starvation, saying that it is a land where freedom and poverty are divided.
The resolution was prepared to send a message of support to the large-scale anti-dictatorship protests continuing in Cuba, and was initiated by Maria Elvira Salazar, a member of the Cuban exile family.
However, this resolution did not include the name of President Kim Il-sung, who started hereditary rule in North Korea.
(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha)