A UN human rights expert called on North Korea on Monday to release tens of thousands of people believed to languish in political prison camps, while urging regional and world powers to raise such issues with Pyongyang alongside nuclear concerns.
Tomas Ojea Quintana said that a landmark UN investigation in 2014 had found that up to 120,000 people were held in the camps and that he continued to receive allegations about them.
Ojea Quintana said that North Korea's system of 'kwanliso' or political prison camps, constituted crimes against humanity - a charge Pyongyang has rejected - and called for perpetrators to face justice. Some 40 per cent of its population lack adequate food supplies, he said, adding: "Now with the country still in the grip of strict COVID-19 measures, there are serious concerns that the most vulnerable segments of the population may be facing hunger and starvation."
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