North Korea Publishes its Own Version of Human Rights Record

North Korea, long criticized for its human rights violations, has come up with its own version of the nations's human rights records Saturday, running into 53,558  words.

This apparently is in response to the United Nations report in February on North Korean human rights abuses, which said that  the country was committing  violations "without any parallel in the contemporary world".

The report, published by North Korea's Association for Human Rights Studies, is in English and in a unique move it has been uploaded on the  KCNA Web site.

It says, the populace of the country enjoys genuine human rights and they have a lot of freedom and privileges, which include right to stand for election and not be subjected to slavery or torture.

It elaborates on its 11-year compulsory education system, it's gender-equality legislation, and its eight-hour  working days, reports the Washington Post. It also has a list of the basic human rights enshrined in its constitution.

A statement in the report  said that North Korean citizens "feel proud of the world's most advantageous human rights system," reports the Washington Times

North Korea has always blamed the west for exaggerating the conditions in the country and slandering the nation.

The North Korean government "frames all criticism of their human rights situation as a politicized attack from hostile forces," said Sokeel Park , who works with North Korean refugees and runs Liberty in North Korea  a non-profit organisation, to CNN, reports the Huffington Post.

"Pyongyang knows they are increasingly diplomatically isolated and they are trying to reverse that tide," Park continued, referring to the government by the name of its capital city. "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."

As expected, the report does not address any allegations of hard labor camps, a ban on expressing any independent political or religious ideology, treatment of foreign nationals, state of economy and agriculture.

The report by North Korea comes ahead of the UN General Assembly later this month where Human Rights abuse will be discussed.