North Korea has `` the world 's most advantageous human rights system , '' the country declared in a lengthy report released on Saturday . Its political system `` bestows upon ( its citizens ) priceless political integrity . '' Its economic system `` ensures people an independent and creative working life , as well as affluent and civilized living standard , '' according to a report by the DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies . The 53,000-word report -- which repeats the phrase `` human rights '' over 700 times -- paints a rosy picture of the country . North Korea issued a vehement defense of its human rights record , in response to a damning U.N. Commission of Inquiry report , released in February . That report criticized North Korea 's authoritarian rule and said the state `` terrorizes '' its own citizens . The U.N. Commission of Inquiry issued its conclusions after listening to testimonies from more than 100 victims , witnesses and experts regarding North Korea . It also examined satellite imagery and listed a stunning catalog of torture and widespread abuse `` that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world . '' North Korea had declined to participate in the inquiry . The human rights plot . North Korea says human rights is an excuse used by the United States to interfere in its affairs . The report repeatedly takes aim at the United States , saying Washington is plotting to `` eventually overthrow the social system '' and also accused the Americans of invading North Korea in 1950 and starting the Korean War . The war began in 1950 after Communist forces attacked the south . The report denies the litany of the state 's abuses saying these are `` racket kicked up by the hostile forces '' and derived from non-credible witnesses , who were paid to `` cook up groundless stories . '' `` Pyongyang frames all criticism of their human rights situation as a politicized attack from hostile forces , '' said Sokeel Park , director of research and strategy at LINK ( Liberty in North Korea ) , an international NGO that works with North Korean refugees . North Korea 's version of its human rights report was published ahead of Tuesday 's U.N. General Assembly , where a discussion and vote on North Korea 's human rights situation is expected . `` Pyongyang knows they are increasingly diplomatically isolated and they are trying to reverse that tide , '' Park told CNN . `` They see the growing international consensus on the seriousness of their human rights violations as one facet of that diplomatic isolation , so it makes sense to try to counter that explicitly too . '' This includes releasing their own `` human rights report '' to counter the U.N. Commission of Inquiry Report , '' he said . What the report says . Divided into five chapters , North Korea says its report was derived from institutions , NGOs and human rights experts . `` The human rights mechanisms of the DPRK which have been formed and developed in the 70-year-long history is a superior system that thoroughly and practically guarantees the people 's human rights in all fields of social life including politics , economy and culture , '' according to the report . It made no mention of its prison system , executions or food shortages . Instead , the report trumpeted its policies of `` universal compulsory education , free medical care and free provision of housings . '' The North Korean report also boasted its `` open trial and rights of defense '' -- which ran contrary to the U.S. State Department 's assertion that it is not given access or details on charges for U.S. defendants held in the country . On Sunday , Matthew Miller , a U.S. citizen , was convicted of `` hostile acts '' and sentenced to six years of hard labor .
North Korea issues its own human rights reports , declares it 's a ` ` superior system '' Pyongyang issued the report in response to the Commission of Inquiry report . Timing of Kim 's release could be linked to upcoming U.N. General Assembly . It makes no mention of its prison system or food shortages .