REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SEOUL -- North Korea claimed Thursday European nations have no qualifications to criticize Pyongyang for human rights abuses, citing their collaboration with the CIA's torture program.

"EU and European countries have so far often found fault with other countries over their alleged human rights violations, behaving as if they were a 'model' in protecting human rights," an unidentified spokesman of North Korea's foreign ministry said in comments carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

"But, this time, it was disclosed that most EU member states became servants in the U.S.' brutal human rights abuses."

The spokesman cited the recently revealed U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report that said 21 European nations, including Britain, aided the CIA in harshly interrogating terror suspects through the provision of sites or other support.

Pyongyang is angry about the EU's leading role in a U.N. resolution against its human rights conditions.

The resolution calls for a referral of the issue to the International Criminal Court. It will be put to a vote at the U.N. General Assembly this week, almost certainly followed by discussions at the Security Council.

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