SEOUL (Reuters) - A report this month by a United Nations rights investigator expressing concern about the human rights and humanitarian situation in North Korea is malicious slander , a North Korean organisation said on Tuesday. In his latest report, Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, said the country s most vulnerable people risk starvation after it slipped deeper into isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ojea Quintana said international sanctions imposed over North Korea s nuclear weapons programme should be eased to provide more aid, but he also criticized abuses such as political prison camps and said self-imposed border lockdowns to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak had worsened conditions. The special rapporteur , not being content with distorting our reality, has pointed a finger at our people s livelihood and viciously picked on the most realistic and appropriate anti-epidemic measures taken by our state for our own specific need in or
SEOUL - A report this month by a United Nations rights investigator expressing concern about the human rights and humanitarian situation in North Korea is "malicious slander", a North Korean organisation said on Tuesday (Oct 26). In his latest report, Tomas Ojea Quintana, UN special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, said the country's most vulnerable people risk starvation.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) North Korea has never been more isolated from the international community as a result of its drastic steps to prevent COVID-19, and the ruptured global ties are having “a dramatic impact on the human rights of the people inside the country,” the U.N.’s independent investigator on the reclusive northeast Asian nation said Friday.
A U.N. investigator says North Korea has never been more isolated from the international community as a result of its drastic steps to prevent COVID-19