North Korea has responded angrily to a report by the U.S. State Department criticizing the DPRK for its lack of religious freedom, in an article published in KCNA on Wednesday.

In an article on the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea criticized the 2013 International Religious Freedom Report‘s categorization of the DPRK as a “country of special concern”, claiming the report’s findings are hypocritical and part of an aggressive U.S. policy against North Korea.

“The U.S. State Department on July 28 in an annual report on international religious freedom for 2013 groundlessly pulled up the DPRK over its