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U.N. adopts new North Korean human rights resolution Updated: 2015-03-27 22:35:53 KST
The U.N. Human Rights Council has adopted a new resolution on North Korea's human rights abuses.
The European Union and Japan submitted a draft of the resolution last week
It urges Pyongyang to release its political prisoners and refreshes attention on the regime's abduction of foreigners.
With this action, the U.N.'s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will hold panel discussions in September and receive direct reports from its new field office in Seoul.
South Korea's foreign ministry welcomed the adoption and called on the North to also follow recommendations by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry to resume reunions for families separated by the Korean War.
Pyongyang earlier denounced the resolution as "political provocation."
The European Union and Japan submitted a draft of the resolution last week
It urges Pyongyang to release its political prisoners and refreshes attention on the regime's abduction of foreigners.
With this action, the U.N.'s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will hold panel discussions in September and receive direct reports from its new field office in Seoul.
South Korea's foreign ministry welcomed the adoption and called on the North to also follow recommendations by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry to resume reunions for families separated by the Korean War.
Pyongyang earlier denounced the resolution as "political provocation."
Reporter : song@arirang.co.kr
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