DPRK state media denounces U.S. for human rights reports

PYONGYANG, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The official news agency KCNA on Thursday slammed the U.S. "Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009", describing them as "nonsensical documents without any scientific accuracy as they distorted human rights practices of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)."

"The United States was the worst country in the world, where human existence and security were not guaranteed and elementary rights to social life were wantonly violated," the agency's commentary said, adding the U.S. administration "abridged the freedom under various pretexts, including that of anti-terrorism."

“In the DPRK, everything is made to serve the popular masses and the state enforces free health care and free compulsory education and provides them with houses free of charge," it said.

It claimed the army and people of the DPRK would "confidently consolidate the Korean-style socialist system no matter what rhetoric the U.S. may let loose."