The
U.N. Security Council discussed human rights abuses in North
Korea on Thursday, with the U.S. ambassador criticising leader
Kim Jong Un for using "repression and cruelty" to develop
nuclear weapons and missiles.
U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of South Korea and
Japan agreed at Camp David on Friday to deepen military and
economic cooperation, facing China's growing power and nuclear
threats from North Korea. They also agreed to hold military
training exercises annually and share real-time information on
North Korean missile launches by the end of the year.
China, North Korea's major ally, opposed the meeting of the
15-member council on abuses in North Korea but it did not
attempt to block it.
"We will never tolerate the U.S. and its followers' anti-(North
Korea) 'human rights' slander scheme, and will defend the
sovereignty of the state, the socialist system and security
interests," North Korea's KCNA quoted as an unnamed spokesperson
from the country's human rights think tank as saying.
For decades Pyongyang has highlighted racial discrimination in
the United States as what it calls an example of Washington's
hypocrisy.
North Korea said on Wednesday an American soldier, Travis King
who crossed into North Korea last month, had fled racism and
abuse in America.
(Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by William Mallard)
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