Religious freedom in North Korea

Had to laugh at this passage from this report on religious freedom in North Korea released by the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom:

In a supplemental report, the DPRK provided the Human Rights Committee with statistics on the number of adherents or believers in the above mentioned officially-sponsored religious bodies as well as the number of religious buildings, ministers, and priests. North Korean diplomats cited the total number of religious believers as 40,000 in a population of 22 million. When questioned by the Committee about the small number of religious believers (less than 0.2 percent of the population), DRPK officials replied:

[M]any people who practiced religion had been killed during the Korean War. Religion was dying of old age and young people seldom showed an interest in religious worship…

The North Korean diplomat went on to reiterate that "Religion was completely separate from the State, which in no way interfered with religious observance or discriminated against any religion."

Guess it depends on your perspective. According to some North Koreans the crime of being a practising Christian can get you run over by a steamroller.