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-UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations General Assembly adopted a

resolution Monday, December 17, condemning the "systematic,
widespread and gross" human rights violations in North Korea. The non-
binding resolution, which was passed by consensus without a vote,
welcomes diplomatic efforts to end the crisis on the Korean peninsula.
But it emphasizes that members are "deeply concerned at the grave
human rights situation, the pervasive culture of impunity and the lack of
accountability for human rights violations in the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea."It also denounces the use of torture as well as
"inhumane conditions of detention, rape, public executions,
extrajudicial and arbitrary detention" and "the existence of an extensive
system of political prison camps."Pyongyang's mission to the UN
attacked the US's willingness to organize a Security Council meeting
on human rights in North Korea.

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