UN: NKorea chooses weapons over food

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 19, 2023 12:15 am

UNITED NATIONS, United States: North Korea was accused at the UN Security Council Thursday (Friday in Manila) of spending heavily on its nuclear arms program while its people go hungry and lack basic necessities.

Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the council that people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have experienced increasingly severe political repression while economic conditions have worsened, with widespread systematic human rights violations.

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