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NK Rejects Visit by UN Human Rights Expert

Written: 2009-12-10 07:24:57Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

NK Rejects Visit by UN Human Rights Expert

North Korea has turned down calls by members of the U.N. Human Rights Council to allow a U.N. rapporteur to visit the communist state to assess the human rights situation there.

Pyongyang’s move comes after the U.N. council adopted on Monday a report that reviewed the reclusive state’s human rights situation and issued recommendations for the North to improve its human rights conditions.

The North said it does not support 47 out of the 50 recommendations made by council members in Monday’s report.

Pyongyang also rejected the recommendation that it discontinue the use of the death penalty, grant people the right to travel freely outside the country and end public executions, torture and forced labor.




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