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N. Korea Unveils Its Own Human Rights Resolution at UN
2014-10-16 Updated.
 
North Korea’s permanent mission to the United Nations has made the first draft of its own resolution on the country’s human rights situation.
 
A diplomatic source said Wednesday that North Korea held a closed meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York and distributed the draft to around 60 representatives from other UN member countries.
 
In the draft, North Korea is said to have claimed that it is making efforts to cooperate on the international stage to enhance the human rights situation. 
 
The North was known to have cited the fact that it signed the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in August, which calls for prohibiting the trafficking, prostitution and pornography of children.
 
Also in the draft, the North is said to have claimed the human rights issue should not be politicized and that double standards should not be implemented in discussing human rights.
 
The Associated Press reported that China said in the meeting that it strongly objects to resolutions that intervene in the internal affairs of a country and hurt mutual trust. 
 
Pyongyang's draft of its own resolution come in the wake of efforts by the European Union and Japan to push for the adoption of a resolution at the UN, which would refer the North’s human rights abuses to the International Criminal Court.
 
 
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