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North Korea: U.N. Attracts Threats for Plan to Monitor Human Rights
North Korea: U.N. Attracts Threats for Plan to Monitor Human Rights
By Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times
9 June 2014
North Korea on Monday threatened “ruthless punishment” against South Korea for playing host to a United Nations office that will monitor the human rights situation in the North. In May, South Korea accepted a request from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to open a field office in Seoul. On Monday, North Korea said that raising a “racket” over a “nonexistent human rights issue” was a politically motivated campaign to defame its government. It said the United Nations office and its staff would “not be excepted from being targets” of its punishment. In March, a panel of United Nations investigators published a report documenting what it called systematic and widespread human rights violations against political prisoners and others in the North. The United Nations has said it hopes that a field office in South Korea, where a large number of North Korean refugees have settled, will aid its investigation of human rights abuses in the North.
A version of this brief appears in print on June 10, 2014, on page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: North Korea: U.N. Attracts Threats for Plan to Monitor Human Rights.
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