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North Korea on Sunday slammed an annual U.S. report that said human rights conditions in North Korea continued to be "deplorable" last year.
In an annual survey of human rights around the world released on Feb. 27, the United States said North Korea was responsible for extrajudicial killings, disappearances, arbitrary detention, arrests of political prisoners and torture.
"The United States has become a subject of worldwide curse and denunciation since it once again released what it called a global human rights report which has never been recognized by anyone," said the North's main newspaper Rodong Sinmun.
"The U.S. acting as a human rights justice is without doubt an unjust intervention in a sovereign state's internal affairs," it said, adding that the report is also designed to tarnish the North's image overseas.
North Korean news media have stepped up their accusation of the United States as "the world's biggest human rights abusing country" since the U.S. State Department released the annual report.
Pyongyang also angrily reacted when the U.N. Committee of Inquiry (COI) released a report earlier in the month alleging that the North has committed organized, extensive and grave crimes against humanity.
