Background against which Tragedy of Bloodshed Took Place in Norway

Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- An Ultra-Right element carried out a bomb attack and shooting spree in Norway recently, leaving 77 people dead and dozens of others wounded.
They were shocking tragedies that stunned Europe in the wake of the bomb attack in Madrid in 2004 and the subway bomb attack in London in 2005.
The incidents unprecedented in the history of peaceful Norway are a wake-up call to the international community that ultra-right forces have been revived in Europe to seriously challenge the social order on the continent.
The man suspected of the recent shooting spree is a typical ultra-right element styling himself a "conservative Norwegian".
Recent economic depression in Europe injected fresh energy into the ultra-right forces. The European economy is hit hard by global financial crisis and debt crisis, increasing the joblessness and sparking off Xenophobia among some people.
Ultra-right forces became vocal in the political forces in European countries including Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany and Austria.
Such ultra-right organizations as "Skin heads" and "self-styling nationalists" have frequently appeared on streets, vandalizing real estates and staging violent demonstrations. These posed a threat to the living of the people at large.
More than 20 000 cases of crimes committed by those elements were reported in Germany in 2008.
The tragedy of bloodshed in Norway warned the whole Europe that such ultra-right trend has gone beyond the limit, letting extremism do harm to the life of the people and the society. -0-