North Korea has strongly denounced the U.S. State Department’s assessment that the North's human rights record remained among the worst in the world last year.
 
A spokesperson for the North’s Foreign Ministry claimed on Saturday that the assessment made on Human Rights Practices for 2014 is a scheme aimed at isolating and crushing the North to death.
 
The spokesperson went on to say that the world will clearly witness how the U.S.’ scheme will be torn into pieces by the roaring guns of the North’s pursuit toward both economic development and nuclear weaponry.
 
The spokesperson stressed that the North will take stronger measures aimed at destroying the U.S.’ hostile policy against Pyongyang.
 
The North’s latest statement comes a few days after it condemned the opening of a UN field office in Seoul, calling it an unacceptable provocation aimed at realizing unification by absorbing the North.