--- description: The state news agency says it will depict a "rosy future." The move comes after a scathing U.N. study on rights in the reclusive state. title: North Korea Prepares Own Human-Rights Report image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd4a29e9195da1716/69869f21e8524b38ee604400/482621581.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The North Koreans Are Unhappy With the U.N.'s Report on Human Rights by [Stephanie Burnett](/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 11, 2014 9:20 AM CUT  The Mass Games being performed in Pyongyang. The Mass Games being performed in Pyongyang.Jonas Gratzer—LightRocket via Getty Images by [Stephanie Burnett](/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 11, 2014 9:20 AM CUT North Korea [plans](http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2014/08/11/62/0301000000AEN20140811007400315F.html "undefined") to publish a report on the state of human rights in the country, nearly six months after a U.N. commission released a scathing document on conditions in the reclusive state. “A report on human rights is to be published in the DPRK (North Korea) by the country’s Association for Human Rights Studies in the near future,” said the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), [according](http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2014/08/11/62/0301000000AEN20140811007400315F.html "undefined") to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. The aim is to debunk the U.N.’s report, which the North previously said was orchestrated by the U.S. to overthrow the Pyongyang regime. The new report, the KCNA says, “will show the true picture of the people of the DPRK dynamically advancing toward a brighter and rosy future while enjoying a free and happy life under the socialist system centered on the popular masses.” The findings documented in the U.N.’s 372-page [probe](http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/coidprk/pages/commissioninquiryonhrindprk.aspx "undefined") are anything but “rosy,” however. The regime is accused of crimes against humanity and the chair of the commission [said](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/18/us-korea-north-un-inquiry-idUSBREA1H1HN20140218 "undefined") they were “strikingly similar” to crimes committed by Nazi Germany in World War II. “These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation,” the U.N. study said. 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