The North has been accused of a litany of state-sanctioned rights abuses including extrajudicial killing, torture, brutal crackdowns on dissent and kidnapping foreign citizens
Kim Jong Un. Pic/AFP
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North Korea condemned US criticism of its human rights record as "ridiculous" as a diplomatic whirlwind accelerated ahead of leader Kim Jong Un's summits with the South and with US President Donald Trump.
The North has been accused of a litany of state-sanctioned rights abuses including extrajudicial killing, torture, brutal crackdowns on dissent and kidnapping foreign citizens.
The US State Department's latest rights report on the North, released last week, described "egregious human rights violations" in the authoritarian state from public executions to surveillance of citizens.
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