Dermot Hudson, of the Korean Friendship Association, which has the official endorsement of Kim Jong-un’s regime, said the hermit state had been “demonised”.
But Daily Politics host Jo Coburn criticised the North Korea supporter and highlighted a United Nations report from 2014 which listed “widespread” human rights violations.
She said: “So you’re defending a tyrannical, dictatorial regime.
“Why is it demonisation, which bit is incorrect?
“A 2014 United Nations commission of enquiry report on human rights in North Korea stated that systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations committed by the Government included murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion and other sexual violence. Is that demonisation?”
Mr Hudson tried to argue his case and said the report had been left by “US sympathisers”.
He said: “No I’m not defending a tyrannical, dictatorial regime. This is demonisation. I strongly disagree with your introduction to the subject.
“That commission of enquiry, which was headed by people very sympathetic to the US, never actually set foot in the DPRK even once.”
North Korea has vowed that Japan will meet its end if it persists with purchasing military arms from the US.
Kim Jong-un’s mouthpiece KCNA citing the despot’s newspaper Rodong Sinmum, issued the new threats shifting World War 3 tensions another palpable gear.
The propaganda rag accused the Japan of “directly and indirectly abetting war hysteria” as it also lashed out US military drills in the Korean Peninsula, which began on Monday.
Referring to the rogue state by its North Korean abbreviation, it said: “Japan’s allegation that it will cope if the DPRK’s ballistic missile and its components fall on Japanese land is tantamount to a noise, making the world laugh.
“What matters is that the Japanese reactionaries’ heedless acts are adding to the danger of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
“Trump let loose a torrent of unheard-of rubbish against the DPRK, regardless of occasion and place, only putting the situation of the peninsula on the threshold of a nuclear war.
“Huge nuclear war hardware of the US including nuclear carrier strike groups, nuclear submarines and nuclear strategic bombers have amassed on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of the remarks of the old lunatic.
“Japan is directly and indirectly abetting the war hysteria of its master, a psychopath.”