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UN General Assembly holds first-ever high-level meeting on North Korean human rights as South Korea urges release of detained missionaries

UN General Assembly holds first-ever high-level meeting on North Korean human rights as South Korea urges release of detained missionaries

For the first time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting addressing the human rights situation in North Korea. The meeting took place on May 20 (local time) at the U.N. Headquarters in New York and was convened by the president of the 79th U.N. General Assembly. It was based on a resolution on North Korean human rights adopted in December 2023. This marks the first occasion the U.N.’s primary deliberative body has addressed the issue in a high-level format

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