North Korean state media has reacted angrily to the establishment of a UN human rights field office in Seoul on Wednesday calling it “an unpardonable hostile act and intolerable political provocation against the DPRK.”

The reaction was published in the form of an editorial in the North Korea daily national newspaper the Rodong Sinmun under the headline, “Unworkable Plot of Human Rights Violators“.

The editorial rejects criticism levelled against North Korea and alleges that South Korea, in accepting the establishment of the UN office, are “viciously conducting smear campaigns against the DPRK over its human rights.”

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