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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Hyonhee Shin PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said North Korea is a country with a brutal dictatorship , an illegal arms programme and rampant human rights violations, issuing unusually strong criticism during a visit to the inter-Korean border on Thursday. Harris, in her first visit to the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, said the heavily armed border area offered a stark reminder of the dramatically different paths the two sides have taken. In the North, we see a brutal dictatorship, rampant human rights violations and an unlawful weapons program that threatens peace and stability, Harris said. The United States and the world seek a stable and peaceful Korean peninsula where the DPRK is no longer a threat, she said, referring to North Korea by the initials of its official name, the Democratic People s Republic of Korea. Harris was in the DMZ after arriving in the South Korean capital, Seoul, early on Thursd