North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights and people are becoming more desperate and reportedly starving in parts of the country as the economic situation worsens, the U.N. rights chief said Thursday.
Volker Turk told the first open meeting of the U.N. Security Council since 2017 on North Korean human rights that in the past its people have endured periods of severe economic difficulty and repression, but “currently they appear to be suffering both.”
On the economic front, Turk said, the government has largely shut down markets and other private means of generating income and increasingly criminalized such activity. Elizabeth Salmon, the U.N. special investigator on human rights in North Korea, echoed Turk: “Some people are starving. Others have died due to a combination of malnutrition, diseases and lack of access to health care.”
The statement said the North Korean government commits “acts of cruelty and repression” at home and abroad which are “inextricably linked with the DPRK's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile advancements in violation of Security Council resolutions.” The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the official name.
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