UN committee passes decision condemning North Korean human rights abuses for nineteenth yr in a row

A United Nations committee has handed a decision condemning North Korean human rights abuses for the nineteenth yr in a row.

The Third Committee of the U.N. Basic Meeting handed a decision Wednesday calling on member nations to not forcibly repatriate political refugees to nations with human rights considerations. 

The decision additionally encourages the U.N. Safety Council to think about referring North Korean human rights abuses to the Worldwide Legal Court docket. 

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North Korean chief Kim Jong Un meets with Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Russian FMA Telegram Channel / Handout/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)

The decision condemns “within the strongest phrases the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights” perpetrated by North Korea.

North Korean Ambassador to the U.N. Kim Tune reacted harshly to the U.N. committee’s choice, characterizing it as a chunk of anti-North Korean propaganda.

“The Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) categorically denied the draft decision on the human rights scenario within the DPRK submitted by the EU … as an anti-DPRK political plot,” mentioned Kim, in keeping with Yonhap Information Company.

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Kim Tune, chair of the delegation of the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea, speaks in the course of the United Nations Basic Meeting in New York. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)

Kim referred to as the decision a “fraudulent doc in line with falsehood, fabrication and plot.”

That is the nineteenth yr in a row that such a decision has been handed by U.N. nations, bringing into query the efficacy of such motions.

Regardless, the decision was well-received by the South Korean delegation to the U.N.

“Our authorities welcomes the adoption of the decision by consensus on the Third Committee of the 78th U.N. Basic Meeting, with 62 nations, together with South Korea, taking part as co-sponsors,” South Korean Overseas Ministry spokesperson Lim Soo-suk mentioned.

South Korean troopers stroll on the truce village of Panmunjom within the Joint Safety Space of the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea, with a view of North Korea’s Panmon Corridor within the background. (Anthony Wallace/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

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South Korea final month mentioned it expressed its considerations to the Individuals’s Republic of China after assessing that the communist nation not too long ago returned a “giant quantity” of North Koreans, together with escapees, again to their homeland.

“It seems to be true that a lot of North Koreans have been repatriated to North Korea from China’s three northeastern provinces,” “It seems to be true that a lot of North Koreans have been repatriated to North Korea from China’s three northeastern provinces,” Koo Byoungsam, spokesperson of South Korea’s Unification Ministry, mentioned. 

He added, “[Our] authorities’s place is that there needs to be no circumstances during which North Koreans dwelling overseas could be forcibly repatriated again house in opposition to their will.”