The North Korean Permanent Mission to the UN has issued a press statement denouncing the actions of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on December 22, according to Worker’s World, the U.S. communist party’s official newspaper.

The press release condemns the UNSC meeting in late December, in which the Council discussed the DPRK’s human rights record.

North Korea stuck to their official line in the press release, calling the UNSC an inappropriate forum for discussions on human rights, while blaming the U.S. for engineering the meeting.

“The United States and some other member states of the Security Council forcibly opened the