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Yonhap News
2009/12/05 18:59 KST
N. Korea lambastes Seoul for human rights campaign

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korea lashed out Saturday at South Korea's move to introduce a law on the communist neighbor's widely-reported human rights abuses, calling it an "unpardonable and grave hostile act."

A subcommittee at the National Assembly passed the bill on human rights in North Korea late last month with the aim of getting it passed through the floor before the current session ends on Dec. 9.

The bill calls for the foreign ministry to appoint a special envoy on North Korean human rights that would cooperate with the international community and the unification minister to draw up a plan every three years to improve the North's human rights conditions and report results to the National Assembly.