Pyongyang condemned on Wednesday recent U.S. reports criticizing its human rights records and religious freedom, and vowed self defence.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) released a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), which said the United States viciously slandered the DPRK in its latest reports on human trafficking and religious freedom around the world.

The statement also condemned the U.S. decision to maintain the "National Emergency" for another year, which calls for more sanctions against the Asian country.

This is an outright challenge to the DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement adopted at the DPRK-U.S. summit talks held in Singapore last June and a manifestation of the most extreme hostile acts by the United States towards the DPRK, said the statement quoted by the KCNA.

"Even though the supreme leaders (of both countries) have devoted themselves to establishing new DPRK-U.S. relations, it would be difficult to look forward to the improvement of the bilateral relations and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula as long as the American politics are dominated by the policy-makers who have an inveterate antagonism towards the DPRK," said the statement.

The spokesperson also stressed in the statement that DPRK is not a country that will surrender to the U.S. sanctions, nor a country which the U.S. could attack whenever it desires to do so.

"If anyone dares to trample over our sovereignty and the right to existence, we will not hesitate to pull a muscle-flexing trigger in order to defend ourselves," said the statement.

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