China slams “inaccurate” UN human rights report on North Korea
March 17, 2014
China has rejected a United Nations report documenting “grave human rights violations” in the North Korea (DPRK) at a UN debate on Monday, saying the report was based on fabricated charges and that its recommendations were “divorced from reality.” An independent commission of inquiry was established last March by the UN’s Human Rights Council to investigate the “systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights” in the Korean peninsula. The commission was to present its findings to the Human Rights Council today.
Michael Kirby, a former Australian jurist, is the Chair of the Commission. Joined by Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK, Marzuki Darusman, and Sonja Biserko, the commission members were responsible for scrutinising the unrecorded human rights abuses in what is considered the most isolated country in the world and transmitting information to the UN for appropriate action.