Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on Friday:

Recently the U.S. Department of State committed another grave politically-motivated provocation of malignantly slandering the DPRK through the "2026 Trafficking in Persons Report" which is full of lies, fabrications, prejudice and hostility.

This clearly proved once again the U.S. vicious and malicious intention to politicize and weaponize human rights and use them as the primary lever for its hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK brands the U.S. deceptive "report," which has nothing to do with genuine human rights as an intensive expression of the hostile policy encroaching upon the sovereignty and internal affairs of our state and hurting the rights and interests of our citizens, and denounces and rejects it in the strongest terms.

The U.S. "human rights" reports, which deviated from the basic principles of human rights and seriously distorted their core values, are nothing but false documents to justify interference in internal affairs and overthrow of social systems in other countries, and herein lies the moral and ethical vulgarity and problematic policy pursued by the U.S.

Human traffic has been an evil of American society for a long time, and it is also the U.S. "specialty" which is difficult to imitate.

The U.S. is the world's most heinous human-trafficker nation which is run and administered by a national flesh-traffic organization and is prospering thanks to it.

We will never regard the U.S. publication of the "report" as an annual and formal habitual practice, but as an unconditional and invariable continuation of the hostile policy toward the DPRK and as a nonstop confrontational attempt aimed at overthrowing the social system of the DPRK and disintegrating it from within.

The essence of the U.S. policy toward the DPRK is to obliterate our people's inalienable right to existence and development, and herein lies the main reason why we should concentrate our more efforts on building up powerful strength for defending our sovereignty.

The U.S. "human rights" racket against the DPRK, which poses a serious threat to the DPRK's sovereign rights and the rights and interests of its citizens, will be the first target of the toughest counteraction against the U.S. together with other hostile acts.

Falsehood has a short life and it cannot cover up the truth in any case.

The DPRK will redouble its practical efforts to neutralize the U.S. hostile acts, lay heavy responsibility on those who did malicious practices and implement justice through the most resolute and decisive action for defending its sovereignty and social system, uncompromising criterion of human rights. -0-