North Korea has blasted Japan for recently submitting a resolution to the UN Human Rights Council deploring the oppression of human rights in North Korea.

The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency issued an editorial Wednesday saying Japan was purposely taking issue with the North's human rights situation on the world stage under the pretext of the Japanese abductees issue. The agency said behind the distortion of the abductees issue lies Tokyo's foolish attempt to evade the task of settling its past historical wrongdoings.

Following the UN council's adoption of the resolution, the editorial said it's preposterous and a flagrant double standard for Japan to raise concern about the rights issues of others while ignoring its own serious aggressions.

The article also mentioned Korean laborers and sex slaves who forcibly served the Japanese during the colonial era. It argued that Japan's talk on North Korean human rights is a smoke screen to conceal its own unsavory past and its current human rights infringements.