North Korea Meets with UN Human Rights Investigator
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Jumat, 19 Oktober 2018 18:52 WIB
Marzuki Darusman, Director of the Human Rights Resource Center. Image: TEMPO/Seto Wardhana
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - After years of isolation, North Korea on Monday finally allowed a UN human rights investigator to probe human rights abuses in North Korea as long as efforts to prosecute North Korea’s leader and other officials for crimes against humanity were dropped.
Marzuki Darusman, the investigator, received the invitation to come to North Korea after presenting his annual report to the General Assembly’s human rights commission. According to North Korea’s representative, the report on human rights in North Korea is a collection of fabrications and smears.
As reported by the New York Times, Darusman said that he had repeatedly been denied entrance to North Korea until he was invited by North Korean diplomats on Monday.
North Korea has also shown more eagerness to engage with South Korea and Japan and last week it unexpectedly released one of three imprisoned Americans.