The United Nations Human Rights Committee completed its review of North Korea's report Friday with much time spent questioning its credibility.
The committee's questions were directed at North Korea's capital punishment, freedom of expression and religion, discrimination against women, freedom to travel or move between cities, and existence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
North Korea, on the other hand, evaded answers on politically sensitive questions, including ones on secret prison camps.
Insisting that the rumors of such camps were fabricated by "impure" elements, North Korea said it "does not feel it is worth answering" questions about something that is not true.
In the process of the questioning about capital punishment, however, North Korea acknowledged there were anti-government forces in the country.
North Korea said...there are ploys by enemy states to annihilate socialism and reactionaries who sympathize with them.