N.Korea slams UN resolution

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Published Nov 21 2009 by Straits Times

N.Korea slams UN resolution

SEOUL - NORTH Korea strenuously defended its human rights record on Friday after a UN General Assembly committee said it had 'very serious concern' about abuses in the isolated communist country.

A non-binding resolution Thursday from the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on human rights highlighted 'systematic, widespread...

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...behind the move "to fake up again a brigandish document defiling the system in the DPRK and infringing upon its sovereignty... One should keep one's hands clean before pointing accusing fingers to others"

N.Korea slams UN resolution [Straits Times - Nov 21 2009]

"The adoption of the said resolution is nothing but a trite political plot hatched by hostile forces against the DPRK (North Korea) every year" the spokesman was quoted...

N.Korea slams UN resolution [Straits Times - Nov 21 2009]

...highlighted "systematic, widespread and grave violations of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights"

N.Korea slams UN resolution [Straits Times - Nov 21 2009]

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