North Korea condemns U.N. call for human rights probe

People walk through Kim Il Sung Square, in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. / AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin

SEOUL, South Korea North Korea has condemned a U.N. resolution approving a formal investigation into its suspected human rights violations.

North Korea's Foreign Ministry said Friday that it will completely ignore the resolution adopted Thursday by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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The resolution calls for the creation of a team of independent experts to investigate for one year what U.N. officials suspect as widespread and systematic violations of human rights in North Korea.

Top U.N. human rights official Navi Pillay has said the U.N. has evidence indicating up to 200,000 people are held in North Korean political prison camps rife with torture, rape and slave labor.

[ksingleton101]

As long as we obey it will never happen here. Someone told me the United States Department of Homeland Security is buying a lot of ammo for all types of guns. So much that it has caused a shortage. If this is he case, why? Can the government stop companies from making ammo?

[ksingleton101]

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[seadoosnipe]

All I can say is, if you've never been on the lands of another country, then you really have not a lot to say about what those who live there risk to seek exile, or what it is of those who want to travel to such a dangerous area. I've been to most all countries in the world, and each time I arrived home, I knelt and kissed the ground I was born. The human rights, the government assistance, the viglantes (which most are well known by authorities), tribal elders, or just about any cleric in a muslim dominated country who has the power, will do as they please to their citizens, for the most part behind the backs of the media, to do their will on them. We only see a tiny fraction in the press. Imagine how much we don't see. You should be proud to be an American, then understand why so many do all they can to get into our country, legal or not.
Until you've been there, witnessed this first hand, then you really don't have much you can say about it.

[gwenboyer1]

I used to wonder why so many foreigners fight and risk death coming to the U. S..