Thousands of North Koreans gathered for a mass rally in Pyongyang on Tuesday to denounce a United Nations resolution condemning the isolationist country's deplorable human rights conditions.
   
According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), some 100,000 people gathered at Kim Il-sung Square to reject the resolution adopted by the international body earlier in the month and to uphold the stance of the country's powerful National Defense Commission (NDC), which vowed to mercilessly retaliate against the United States and its allies.
  
The rally was shown on North Korean television, with participants saying the anti-DPRK resolution is impudent political chicanery aimed at defaming the dignity of the DPRK. 
 
DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name. 
  
"The move is designed to totally obliterate everything dear to the army and the people," said the media report, quoting participants.
   
They added that it is the United States that is a leader of committing human rights abuses.
   
The crowd said that Washington sponsored the resolution with such riffraff as the European Union, Japan and the (President) Park Geun-hye group in South Korea.
   
Media reports said that top-ranking officials from the government, the ruling party, and the military took part in the protest along with people from industrial establishments, farmers and students.
  
Related to Pyongyang's reaction to the resolution, the KCNA also said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un lashed out at the United States for its role in pushing forward the motion at the global body.
   
Kim, who reportedly visited a museum in Sinchon, South Hwanghae Province, to mark atrocities committed by U.S. forces during the Korean War (1950-53), pointed out that American soldiers committed the worst kind of inhumane acts against civilians.
  
It is common for North Korea to attack the outside world but it is very rare for the country's leader to personally take such a step.
   
Pyongyang watchers in Seoul said the reaction comes as the North and its leadership views the resolution as a means to topple the regime. (Yonhap)