North Korea has published its assessment of its own human rights record. The report says the record of the Pyongyang regime of leader Kim Jong-un is stellar, focusing on making the rights and interests of its people a top priority, and upholding citizens’ right to freedom of assembly and religion. The report was in response to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea recommendation that Kim be brought to trial at the International Criminal Court for his abuses, and came the day after a U.S. tourist, Matthew Miller, was sentenced to six years in prison for attempting to investigate the country’s human rights practices.
