North Korea said the White House harbours a “policy of racism” while denying freedom of the press and health coverage to citizens.
The hermit state issued a ‘White Paper on Human Rights Violations in the US in 2017’, accusing the US of a ferocious crackdowns on its citizens.
The paper focused purely on issues within the US and did not mention the ongoing nuclear dispute between the two states.
Domestic issues including August’s ‘United the Right’ rally and counter-rally in Charlottesville, in which Heather Heyer was killed when a car was driven into a group of anti-Alt Right marches, was put under the spotlight.
The paper said: “Racial discrimination and misanthropy are serious maladies inherent to the social system of the US and they have been aggravated since Trump took office.
“The racial violence that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12 is a typical example of the acme of the current administration’s policy of racism.”
And in a swipe at the president, the report said Mr Trump has filled his cabinet with billionaires, citing US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnunchin and Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
It said: “The total assets of public servants at the level of deputy secretary and above of the current administration are worth $14 billion.”
North Korea’s bizarre paper said genuine freedoms of the press and of expression did not exist in the United States and that crackdowns against the media had intensified in the past year.
More people have joined the ranks of the unemployed and the homeless, it said.
It comes after Mr Trump in his first State of Union speech to Congress on Tuesday, branded North Korea’s leadership “depraved”. He told Americans that its pursuit of nuclear missiles could “very soon threaten our homeland” and vowed a continued campaign to prevent that.
The ‘White Paper on Human Rights Violations in the US in 2017’ paper, was issued by the Institute of International Studies in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and circulated by its diplomatic mission in Geneva.
The paper’s publication was marked just hours later by a bungled war exercise in Hawaii, in which a US missile defence system failed to take out a dummy rocket.
Ab official speaking under the condition of anonymity said the defence missile SM-3 Block IIA had been deployed from an Aegis Ashore site in Hawaii with the hope of hitting another missile fired from an aircraft.
However it missed the target and the mock missile fired in the war game continued towards its target.