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28476
Tue, 11/04/2008 - 22:07
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N.K. blasts Japan's human rights resolution against it
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- Japan's ongoing endeavor to present a human rights resolution against North Korea is an intolerable violation of its sovereignty, North Korean media said Tuesday.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Japan, in collusion with the EU,
is busy working out the draft resolution to the U.N. committee in a bid to to put
it on the agenda of the 63rd UN General Assembly late this month.
"To interfere in the internal affairs of other countries under the pretext of
'human rights situation' is an intolerable encroachment upon independent
sovereign states," the agency said under the headline "KCNA Assails Japan's
Unwarranted Human Rights Ruckus."
Late last month, the Voice of America reported that Japan and the European Union
plan to submit to the United Nations Third Committee in November a joint
resolution pressing the communist North to improve its dire human rights
conditions. The committee is in charge of social and human rights issues.
The KCNA said it is "brazen-faced" for Japan to raise such human rights issue.
"Japan is not in a position to talk about human rights issues as it is the only
country in the world that still goes with its unprecedented crimes against
humanity unsettled," it said.
The agency criticized Japan for not yet apologizing or making reparations for
crimes such as enslaving Korean and other Asian women as sex slaves for its
military during the World War II.
"The international community is skeptical about Japan and the EU taking so much
pain over the issue of 'the improvement of the human rights performance' in
another country," the agency said.
Since 2003, a non-binding resolution on North Korea's dismal human rights
conditions had been adopted annually by the U.N. human rights council, as well as
by the higher authority of the U.N. General Assembly beginning in 2005.
Although South Korea had been absent or abstained from the vote until 2006, when
it cast a 'yes' vote for the first time following the election of U.N. Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, it is sure to vote
on the resolution this year.
Seoul's two previous liberal presidents, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun,
prioritized reconciliation with Pyongyang, which is highly sensitive to the human
rights issue. President Lee Myung-bak, who took office in February, shifted
Seoul's focus to its alliance with Washington, toughening its position against
Pyongyang.
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The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Japan, in collusion with the EU,
is busy working out the draft resolution to the U.N. committee in a bid to to put
it on the agenda of the 63rd UN General Assembly late this month.
"To interfere in the internal affairs of other countries under the pretext of
'human rights situation' is an intolerable encroachment upon independent
sovereign states," the agency said under the headline "KCNA Assails Japan's
Unwarranted Human Rights Ruckus."
Late last month, the Voice of America reported that Japan and the European Union
plan to submit to the United Nations Third Committee in November a joint
resolution pressing the communist North to improve its dire human rights
conditions. The committee is in charge of social and human rights issues.
The KCNA said it is "brazen-faced" for Japan to raise such human rights issue.
"Japan is not in a position to talk about human rights issues as it is the only
country in the world that still goes with its unprecedented crimes against
humanity unsettled," it said.
The agency criticized Japan for not yet apologizing or making reparations for
crimes such as enslaving Korean and other Asian women as sex slaves for its
military during the World War II.
"The international community is skeptical about Japan and the EU taking so much
pain over the issue of 'the improvement of the human rights performance' in
another country," the agency said.
Since 2003, a non-binding resolution on North Korea's dismal human rights
conditions had been adopted annually by the U.N. human rights council, as well as
by the higher authority of the U.N. General Assembly beginning in 2005.
Although South Korea had been absent or abstained from the vote until 2006, when
it cast a 'yes' vote for the first time following the election of U.N. Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, it is sure to vote
on the resolution this year.
Seoul's two previous liberal presidents, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun,
prioritized reconciliation with Pyongyang, which is highly sensitive to the human
rights issue. President Lee Myung-bak, who took office in February, shifted
Seoul's focus to its alliance with Washington, toughening its position against
Pyongyang.
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