A United Nations official has urged North Korea to renounce policies that would only worsen its dire food shortage problem.
The UN's Special Rapporteur on human rights in the North Vitit Muntarbhorn told a UN council in Geneva that Pyeongyang has tightened its control over food distribution and outlawed smallholdings and markets.
Muntarbhorn says the ruling elite is trying to instill "a pervasive state of fear" through widespread public executions, torture and stepped-up surveillance.
Meanwhile, North Korea's envoy to the UN office in Geneva strongly rejected Muntarbhorn's claim saying Western powers and Japan were conspiring against the North.
MAR 16, 2010
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