Delegation Pyongyang authorities revealed this information during the presentation of the UN’s own internal report on the human rights situation.
Pyongyang government document is a response to a report published in February, indicating, inter alia, the United Nations numerous crimes North Korean authorities and maintaining the country prison camps. At the presentation of the document at the UN invited diplomats and journalists.
“rumors spread by hostile forces”
“Wild rumors and fabrications of the Korean People’s Democratic Republic are distributed among the international public opinion by hostile forces,” – said in the report, which stresses that human rights is used to destroy the image of the state.
When short meeting with journalists representative of the North Korean Foreign Ministry Czoe Mjong Nam said his country “does not have prison camps or similar things.” At the same time admitted that operate camps “reforming the work.”
“This is not a prison centers”
– both in law and in practice, there are camps reforming the job, but they are not centers of prison, but a place where people work on their minds and bend over committed errors – he said.
North Korean Deputy UN Ambassador Ri Tong Il said that Pyongyang’s special envoy met with representatives of the European Union in Brussels. He added that his country “is expected to open a political dialogue between the parties at the end of the year.” The representative of the communist regime also said that apart from political topics in the talks with the EU will be discussed human rights issues.
Systematic use of torture
The UN report found that the director of North Korean security services, and even the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, should be brought to justice before an international court for systematic torture and murder citizens of their own country.
It is estimated that in the prison camps in the territory of North Korea kept at about 120 thousand. people. So far, Pyongyang officially denied that maintained labor camps for prisoners.
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