The U.S. and its followers are malignantly pulling up the DPRK over its non-existent "human rights issue", the statement said, adding:

They are distorting the human rights policy, system for ensuring human rights and reality in the DPRK after cooking up a "human rights report".

The south Korean puppet authorities are making reckless remarks groundlessly slandering the DPRK.

However, such smear campaign can never work on the DPRK.

Everything serves the popular masses and human rights are firmly guaranteed in the DPRK, a socialist country where the politics of love for them, the all-embracing politics, is in force.

The DPRK had access to strong nuclear deterrence to cope with the U.S. hostile policy toward the former and will further bolster it up.

The U.S. should bear in mind that it can never bring down the socialist system chosen by the Korean people themselves.

We, who set store by the friendship with the Korean people, vehemently denounce all sorts of hostile acts to hurt the dignity of the DPRK and its social system.

We demand the U.S. and its followers stop at once their moves to stifle the DPRK.