North Korea Slams UN Report Claiming Human Rights Abuses in Country, Calls It ‘Fabricating and Fictitious’

Mumbai, September 9: North Korea on Monday condemned a recent United Nations report on the alleged human rights abuses in the country and described it as a "fabricating and fictitious" document, brought out to paint it in bad light.  

In a report on North Korea's human rights situation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recommended that North Korea investigate, prosecute, and bring to justice those accused of having committed human rights violations. The report will be submitted to the UN General Assembly, Yonhap news agency reported. Capital Punishment for North Korean Officials: Kim Jong-Un Orders Execution of 30 Officials for ‘Failing’ To Prevent Deaths in Floods That Claimed 1,000 Lives, Says Media Report.

Kim Son-gyong, vice Foreign Minister of North Korea, said the enemy forces fabricated the report in a bid to slander the North and tarnish its image, according to the Korean Central News Agency. "I severely condemn the enemy forces' move to slander our country's dignity and system in the name of the UN as a political provocation and an act of violating a sovereignty that we cannot tolerate," Kim said. North Korea Executes 22-Year-Old Man for Listening to K-Pop Songs and Watching South Korean Films: Report.

Kim said the UN should first take issue with Washington's human rights abuses before denouncing the North's human rights problems that do not even exist, claiming that rampant hate crimes and other inhumane acts have been committed in the United States. North Korea has long bristled at outside criticism of its human rights abuses, calling it a US-led attempt to topple its regime.

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