UN Special Rapporteur October 24 9:06 on the subject of North Korea talks about serious human rights violations in North Korea
A special rapporteur investigating North Korea's human rights situation at the United Nations has released the results of this year's survey, and North Korea continues to address human rights issues in talks with the North, as serious human rights violations continue. I asked.
Mr. Quintana, an Argentine lawyer who serves as a special rapporteur to examine the human rights situation of North Korea at the United Nations, held a press conference on the 23rd and published the results of the survey for the past year.
In this, Quintana pointed out that in North Korea, people were deprived of freedom of expression and serious human rights violations continued. Quintana also points out in the previously published report that there has been no progress in the problem of Japanese abductions.
Quintana said the US-North Korea talks about denuclearization said, “Protecting human rights is an essential element for denuclearization and the stability of the Korean peninsula,” calling for human rights issues to be addressed in the US-North Korea talks. It was.
Quintana also said the UN Security Council ’s resolution on North Korea ’s sanctions: “I met with a special representative of the US government, North Korea, but I was informed that the process of excluding humanitarian assistance from sanctions has been improved.” In the meantime, the sanctions maintained that humanitarian food assistance could be expanded while maintaining sanctions.