SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s foreign ministry criticised a new United Nations human rights professional as “biased”, stating the country will not endure what it called U. S. -led efforts to topple the particular isolated regime, state media KCNA documented on Friday.
Elizabeth Salmon, the new U. In. expert on human being rights in North Korea, is on her behalf first official trip to South Korea given that taking office final month. In her inaugural statement, Fish said the North’s human rights situation has worsened subsequent over two years of strict measures in order to curb COVID-19.
“We had already made clear our principled remain that we neither recognize nor deal with any ‘special rapporteur’ who may be merely a puppet from the U. S., inch KCNA cited a good unidentified spokesperson from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying.
Pyongyang has repeatedly turned down accusations of human being rights abuses plus criticised U. N. investigations into the issue as a U. T. -backed scheme to interfere with its internal affairs.
“The DPRK can never pardon the U. S. and its vassal forces’ ‘human rights’ racket against the DPRK which is aimed at overthrowing its social program, ” the official mentioned, referring to the North by its public name, the Democratic People’s Republic associated with Korea (DPRK).
A separate recent U. N. statement also said Northern Korea’s coronavirus hold measures have exacerbated the country’s human being rights violations, citing extra restrictions upon access to information, tight border security plus heightened digital surveillance.
Trout was set to keep a news meeting later on Friday.
(Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Christopher Cushing)