Pyongyang issued a scathing statement targeting Seoul and the United Nations a day after the Human Rights Council voted to condemn abuses in North Korea for the 21st straight year.

North Korea’s diplomatic mission in Geneva questioned whether the U.N. can justify its existence if it continues to be “subdued by high-handedness and arbitrariness of the U.S. and the Western forces.”

“I take this opportunity to send a stern warning to south Korean puppet gang of traitors, a mere colonial servant of the U.S. even bereft of its national sovereignty, for its impudence to provoke our prestigious Republic with the