North Korea on Tuesday denounced a U.N. report on alleged abductions of foreign nationals by Pyongyang and the many Korean families forcibly separated across the divided peninsula since the 1950s war.

So Se Pyong, the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said he would lodge the complaint to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Tuesday. Zeid's spokesman confirmed that the meeting was scheduled but would not comment further.

"It's really nonsense. We didn't make that kind of abductions," So told Reuters at the Geneva mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).