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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Kim Tong-Hyung

North Korea calls US human rights envoy a 'political housemaid' in protest of criticisms

Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

North Korea hurled misogynistic insults Wednesday at a newly confirmed United States special envoy to monitor the country’s human rights issues and warned of unspecified security consequences if Washington continues to criticize its human rights conditions.

The statement published by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency described Julie Turner as a “wicked woman” who was picked by the Biden administration as a “political housemaid” to launch groundless attacks on the country’s human rights record.

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