U.N. panel adopts resolution condemning North Korea's rights abuses

Tamara Ceaikovski

SEOUL, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A U.N. committee adopted a resolution condemning North Korea's human rights violations, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Thursday, with 61 co-sponsors including South Korea and the United States. The draft resolution , introduced earlier this month to the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, "condemns in the strongest terms the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights in and by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,

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