The Russian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea in a statement on March 18 said that the U.S. should properly understand that the DPRK's nuclear deterrent is neither a bargaining chip nor a means of dealing but one to defend the sovereignty of the country and nation.

It is nothing but a tragicomedy that the U.S. is conducting its conspiratorial "human rights" racket against the DPRK, the statement noted.

Saying that the U.S. "human rights" racket does not work on the DPRK, it urged the U.S. to stop its threats and mud-slinging at the DPRK at once.

The Karelia-DPRK Friendship Association of Russia issued a statement on March 19.

It said that the U.S. hostile acts against the DPRK to isolate and stifle it politically, economically and militarily are now reaching a grave phase.

The U.S. and south Korean authorities are staging provocative war maneuvers for aggression, bringing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war, and slandering even the election of deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly successfully held in the DPRK.

Through the election the Korean people showed the world their strong will to further demonstrate the might of the single-minded unity around supreme leader Kim Jong Un and glorify socialism.

The U.S. political and military interference in sovereign states is a grave state-sponsored terrorist act and human rights abuse.

The U.S. has no political and legal qualification to style itself a "human rights judge" as it is a criminal state which has the worst records in the form, contents and degree of human rights abuses.