North Korea to take 'tougher countermeasures' against US
North Korea says it will take “tougher countermeasures” against the United States after Washington said the communist country has one of the worst human rights situations in the world.
The US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2014, released on Thursday, showed that North Korea "remained among the worst in the world".
The report said Pyongyang commits "systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations," adding that those violations constitute "crimes against humanity."
In response, a North Korean Foreign Ministry representative said in a statement on Saturday that "the US is dreaming a foolish dream that any 'change' would take place in the DPRK (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)".
"Now that the US persists in the hostile policy toward the DPRK, it will take tougher countermeasures," said the statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Pyongyang also said that the report by the US State Department is a "sinister attempt" to bring down the North Korean government under the pretext of protecting human rights.
North Korea has accused US President Barack Obama of plotting with regional allies to overthrow its government. Pyongyang says it will not relinquish its nuclear deterrence unless the US ends its hostile policy toward North Korea and dissolves the US-led UN command in South Korea.
The country is under UN sanctions over launching rockets considered by the West as ballistic missiles aimed at delivering nuclear warheads.
The Korean Peninsula has been locked in a cycle of military rhetoric since the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953 and ended in an armistice. No peace deal has been signed since then, meaning that Pyongyang and Seoul remain technically at war.
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