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TEHRAN, December 25 -North Korea has censured a United Nations (UN) resolution that condemns the country’s human rights record, calling it a “serious provocation.”
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -North Korea has censured a United Nations (UN) resolution that condemns the country’s human rights record, calling it a “serious provocation.”
The resolution, which criticized what it called “systematic, widespread and gross” human rights violations in North Korea, had been passed by consensus without a vote at the UN General Assembly on December 17. It marked the 14th consecutive year the UN approved such a document.
In an editorial, North Korea’s state-run Rodong newspaper condemned the UN document as a “serious political provocation against the (North) and a vicious move to tarnish its international image.”
The editorial also slammed “thoughtless” South Korea for supporting the UN resolution, saying the move would be “tarnishing the atmosphere of improving the North-South ties.”
Seoul and Pyongyang have been improving their relations since January this year.
Rodong also lashed at the United States.
“The wicked intention of the US... in getting vocal about the non-existent ‘human rights issue’ of the DPRK is to broaden the scope of the sanctions and pressure and escalate them,” Rodong said in the editorial, using the initials of North Korea’s official name.
Earlier this month, the US abandoned an attempt to hold a UN Security Council session to slam North Korea’s human rights record after failing to muster enough support for the bid.
But Washington hopes to hold the meeting in January, when five new non-permanent members rotate onto the Security Council that could be more favorable to doing so.
The US stance comes despite attempts by its president, Donald Trump, to work with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Trump met with Trump for the first time in Singapore in June, when dialog was opened between the two countries on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula after months of exchanging military threats.
There has been talk by the US of a second summit early next year, but it is unclear whether North Korea would agree to the holding of that summit.
US-North Korea talks for a denuclearization deal appear to have stalled in part due to disagreements over the timing of US sanctions relief.
The potential holding of the Security Council meeting on North Korea will in all likelihood further complicate Trump’s attempts.
Source: presstv
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