Freedom House has once again designated North Korea as among the world’s most repressive countries. 

According to the Voice of America(VOA) Wednesday, the U.S.-based private human rights watchdog counted the North among “the worst of the worst” in its latest annual report on political rights and civil liberties. 

The North received seven points on a scale from one to seven with the countries given a score of one considered “most free" and the countries with a score of seven "least free." 

On an incremental one to 100 scale, the North only received three, becoming one of the four worst countries along with Syria, Uzbekistan and Eritrea. 

The North has continuously made it onto the worst of the worst list in the group’s annual report since 1972.

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