Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper said key North Korean officials expressed disapproval over Washington's intervention in human rights violations in North Korea.
 
Appearing on the CBS news program "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Clapper discussed his recent trip to North Korea that won the release of two detained Americans.
 
The director said that during his dinner with Kim Yong-chol, director of the North's Reconnaissance General Bureau and Kim Won-hong, the North's minister of state security, the two officials also raised speculations on the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise.
 
Describing the dinner as “terse,” he also said the officials brought up the human rights issue at one point during their talks and criticized the U.S. for its “interventionist approach” into the North’s internal matters.
 
He told CBS that “the country feels itself to be under siege,” and the North Korean officials seemed disappointed that his visit didn’t lead to a breakthrough in the strained relations between the two countries.