South Korean Ambassador to the UN Hwang Joon-kook stated that children in North Korea face grave human rights abuses, including receiving the death penalty for distributing South Korean dramas, during a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. During the UNSC Briefing on Children and Armed Conflict, Hwang mentioned that children in North Korea face “egregious human rights violati.
South Korea s top envoy to the U.N. expressed concerns Wednesday over egregious human rights violations facing children in North Korea, including what he called the death penalty for distributing South Korean dramas.
South Korea is poised to chair a UN Security Council meeting on cybersecurity on Thursday to shed light on the repercussions of cyber threats and malicious cyber activities, including North Korea's sanctions-busting maneuvers in cyberspace, on international peace and security. The chairing of South Korea's first Arria-formula meeting — an informal gathering convened by a Security Council member or mem.
In a classic under-the-political radar ploy, Russia has vetoed a U.N. Committee investigating North Korean nuclear, missile and banking sanctions violations. The low-profile but highly significant sanctions committee regularly monitors illicit actions by the Pyongyang communists to develop, improve and implement the regime s nuclear weapons and offensive missile programs.
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