DPRK Slams US Religious Organization's Annual ReportThe Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday slammed a U.S. religious organization for its annual report in which it distorted truth and interfered in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in an editorial that the international association of religious freedom in the United States in its recent "annual report" cited sheer lies that "the DPRK suppresses all religious activities" and "people are tortured and persecuted for believing in the religion." This is a base falsification of truth and an intolerable interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, all intended to tarnish the image of the DPRK and invent a pretext for increasing international pressure upon it, the KCNA said. This association may issue an "annual report" every year and that is its own business. But, it is intolerable that styling itself an organization leading world religion, said the report. The association should face up to the reality in the US before decrying the system in the DPRK, the report added. |
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