A top North Korean diplomat denounced a new U.N. report on human rights abuses in the country as a “hideous anti-DPRK conspiratorial and confrontation document,” calling U.S. “hostile policy” the only threat to North Koreans’ human rights.

Pyongyang’s foreign ministry expressed “serious concern” about a recent U.S.-ROK tabletop nuclear simulation and pledged to deter nuclear “threats” from the allies by building up its own nuclear forces.

The party newspaper Rodong Sinmun continued a series about wayward workers who pursued private business interests before becoming exemplary workers who labor for the