The chairman noted in the statement that the DPRK Foreign Ministry laid bare the ulterior aim sought by the U.S. in talking about "human rights issue" and "the issue of people's living".

He went on:

It is an inveterate bad habit of the U.S. to use a human rights issue as a political lever for carrying out its strategy for world domination.

The U.S. persistent talk about the human rights issue in the DPRK is, in essence, a product of its hostile policy toward the DPRK aimed at bringing down the socialist system chosen by the Korean people themselves.

It is quite natural that many countries of the world are scathingly condemning the U.S. "human rights report" as a dustbin of all distortions and fabrications.

We fully support the statement of a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry, bitterly denouncing the U.S. for malignantly slandering independent countries.