The upcoming Channel 4 drama “Opposite Number” is part of a concerted Western effort to slander North Korea and its attempts to acquire nuclear weapons, according to an article on state news agency KCNA Sunday.

Quoting a spokesman for the country’s Policy Department of the National Defence Commission, the editorial describes the upcoming ten-part drama series as “a conspiratorial charade”, which is “malignantly slandering the DPRK”.

“The broadcasting service is blustering without hesitation that the purpose of the movie is to tell the world that the DPRK is the ‘most closed country on the earth’ and the ‘biggest threat’ to the