The Democratic People's Republicof Korea (DPRK) on Monday condemned the United States' planning to designate a special envoy "in charge of DPRK's human rights" and "change the DPRK's economic system."

"It is going beyond the danger line kicked up by the US as partof its hostile policy toward the DPRK," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman, referring to the US anti-DPRK activities under the pretext of "human rights."

"When its 'North Korean Human Rights Act' came to be denounced by the international community, the US blustered that the act is not aimed to 'bring down the system in the DPRK' but 'make it change its system" and it is specifically designed to 'make it change its economic system," said the spokesman.

The spokesman also accused the United States of applying "selectivity and double standard" in "human rights issues." "Looking back on its history, the US faked up pretexts of 'human rights issues' for interfering in the internal affairs of those anti-US, independent countries," said the spokesman.

"If the US more desperately pursues its hostile policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK, not showing its willingness to co-exist with the DPRK, the latter will react to it by further increasing its self-defensive deterrent force," the spokesman warned.

Source: Xinhua