North Korea has announced it would publish its own "rosy" human rights report, six months after a UN inquiry published a list of violations so severe as to amount to crimes against humanity.

The North's Association for Human Rights Studies said the report would counter the "lies and fabrications" put around by unspecified "hostile forces" about the rights situation in the isolated state.

Regularly listed among the world’s worst human rights offenders in indexes compiled by government, UN agencies and rights watchdogs, North Korea was explicitly disclosed by a recent report published by UN Commission of Inquiry detailing a wide range of systematic cases of human rights abuses done in the communist regime.

"The gravity, scale and nature of these violations revealed a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world," the commission said.

In an interview with the North's official KCNA news agency, a spokesman from the North's rights association said that its own report would help people "do away with their prejudice and misunderstanding" about the rights situation.

No release date was given, with the spokesman only saying the report would be published in "the near future". 

Source: The telegraph