UN condemns N.Korea rights abuses
The United Nations General Assembly condemned
"the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations
of human rights in and by" North Korea in an annual resolution that
Pyongyang's UN envoy rejected, according to US News.
The resolution, sponsored by dozens of countries
including the United States, was adopted by the 193-member General Assembly
without a vote. Such resolutions are non-binding but can carry political
weight.
North Korea's UN Ambassador Kim Song told the
General Assembly that the resolution has "nothing to do with the genuine
promotion and protection of human rights, as it is an impure product of
political plots by hostile forces that seek to tarnish the dignity and image of
the DPRK and overthrow our social system."
A landmark 2014 UN report on North Korean human
rights concluded that North Korean security chiefs - and possibly leader Kim
Jong Un himself - should face justice for overseeing a state-controlled system
of Nazi-style atrocities.
