Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday lauded South Korea's co-sponsorship of this year's U.N. resolution condemning human rights violations in North Korea . Ban made the remarks in his keynote speech to an international conference on North Korean human rights held in Seoul, after the U.N. General Assembly's Third Committee adopted a resolution against North Korea's human rights abuses last week in New York. A total of 61 countries co-sponsored the annually adopted resolution,