North Korea slammed the U.K. for “rampant violence” against youth and women in what an expert called a “tabloid-style” propaganda statement, which blatantly omits reported crime data.

The DPRK foreign ministry carried a statement by a researcher at the Korea-Europe Association on Thursday, chastising the U.K. for reporting human rights issues in other countries.

“It’s utterly ridiculous that the U.K., professing to be a ‘country of advanced human rights’, often finds fault with human rights issue of other countries, instead of redressing the poor human rights situation in its own country,” a researcher named Mun Hyon A reportedly wrote.

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