Despite actively pursuing diplomacy on its nuclear program, North Korea continue...
GENEVA - Despite actively pursuing diplomacy on its nuclear program, North Korea continues to quash basic freedoms, maintaining political prison camps and strict surveillance of its citizens, a United Nations human rights investigator said on Friday.
North Korea has frozen its nuclear and missile testing since 2017 and held several summits with the United States and South Korea in the past year, emerging from decades of isolation. The U.N. expert said he “continues to receive reports of the existence of the political prison camps where people are being sent without due process. Torture and ill-treatment reportedly remain widespread and systematic in detention facilities.”
However, Ojea Quintana also called for an easing of sanctions imposed on North Korea for its nuclear activities, saying they had led to “significant delays and disruption” in the humanitarian aid effort. Some 10.3 million people or 41 per cent of the population lack sufficient food, he said.
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