, Kim Song, during a meeting last month of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
The organization also alleged that China conducted forced repatriations of North Korean refugees, an allegation that the North Korean Foreign Ministry denied earlier this month. "Before talking impudently about 'human rights issue' of other countries, the U.S. should address the human rights problems of its own society which are daily getting worse owing to its anti-popular policies," the ministry said.
North Korea has criticized the White House's lack of authority to extend the eviction moratorium. Above, North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of 10,000 new apartments in Pyongyang on March 23, 2021.Despite a brief detente in 2018 as Trump and Kim pursued peace, the U.S. and North Korea remain at deep geopolitical odds since the collapse of peace talks between the longtime foes.
While Price reassured that such drills were"purely defensive in nature," North Korean officials have described them as disruptive to regional peace and stability.