North Korea has denounced U.S. plans to present a multilateral report on Pyongyang’s sanctions evasion activities at the U.N., dismissing the findings as “fabricated.”

In a statement Monday, the DPRK Permanent Mission to the U.N. accused the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) of being an “illegal” organization that has no connection with the intergovernmental body.

It also expressed serious concern that the U.S. is attempting to “attach ‘legitimacy’” to the MSMT through the U.N. briefing, describing the organization as “cooked up by some Western countries hostile to the DPRK.”

“It is a mockery of all U.N. member states and an