UN expert spotlights abysmal human rights situation in DPR Korea

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United Nations, New York, 22 October 2009 - The human rights situation in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) remains abysmal as a result of the repressive nature of the ruling regime, the independent United Nations expert monitoring the situation in the East Asian nation said in his latest report submitted today.

The freedoms from want, from fear, from discrimination, from persecution and from exploitation are regrettably transgressed with impunity by those authorities, in an astonishing setting of abuse after abuse, said Vitit Muntarbhorn, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK.

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