How should one define rights? According to North Korea’s recent internal report on human rights, the determining factors should be independence, security and socialism.

The report has drawn attention from many media outlets since its release, especially given its ardent denial of rights abuses months after the UN Commission of Inquiry’s searing condemnation of its prison camp system and restrictions placed on those still in the country.

And some aspects of the report are likely to prompt incredulity, particularly its insistences that the United States started the Korean War, that North Korea decisively won it (a “world-startling feat,” it claims)