UNITED NATIONS – Gloria Steinem on Friday described demands that organizers of an upcoming DMZ crossing bring up North Korean human rights violations as “bananas.”

Steinem, perhaps the most visible of the march’s participants, was speaking as part of a press conference held one block from the UN.

The press conference was marked several times by applause from attendees. But things grew heated when the question of why the WomenCrossDMZ.org website does not mention human rights violations in North Korea.

“I teach a class devoted entirely to North Korea at Rutgers University, we spent the last two weeks talking about