North Korea is currently taking a defensive stance against the United States over accusations of hacking Sony Picture. To make matters worse, North Korea now refused to take part in the United Nations Security Council's groundbreaking meeting that will discuss the states dreary human rights situations.
International pressure have been slowly building all over Pyongyang this year as a United Nations initiated inquiry about the country's alleged crimes against humanity and warnings that the young leader, Kim Jong-un, can and will be held accountable in case he will be found guilty of the charges. Moreover, added attention have been leveled on the hermetic state after the United States blamed it for the damaging cyber-attack on Sony Pictures regarding the film "The Interview", a movie that parodies Kim Jong-un's assassination.
With the recent drastic change in the ongoing effort to confront the human rights situation inside North Korea, United Nations Security Council have extended their disappointment about the recent North Korean decision to snub the investigation. The United Nation even threatened to refer the situation to the International Criminal Court, seeing that the court is the last resort to deal with the North Korean atrocities.
Instead of showing its support to the Security Council's effort to suppress human rights violation, the North Korean government accuses the United States and its associates of pulling strings and using the human right accusation in order to overthrow the current governance of the starving but nuclear-armed state. Pyongyang in an official statement called a group of people who left the country and give aid to the commission's inquiry "human scum".
It is important to note that North Korea issued a terrifying warning to continue its nuclear tests if the United Nations General Assembly will escalate the human right situation issue to the Security Council, a move that will make the issue a matter of international peace and security.
