Text Fwd: U.N. rights envoy on N. Korea due in Seoul: sources

*Human rights issue, with the nuclear weapon issuem, is one of the psychological, intelligence operations by the United States to defame the North Korea. The National Endowment Democracy which gets the fund from the State Department, the Defense Department and the CIA, not to mention the UN envoy and the right wing South Korean government and Christians are all in an Orchestra to defame and throw down the North Korea. They are selling the hunger of the North Korea for their interest while not trying to normalize the relationship for peace. How about more than 50 years sanction against the North Korea (Imagine your country is forced of one month sanction by the imperial dominant strategy)? Is it not the real abuse of the human rights, not to mention Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib?

The Hippocratic tactic of the human rights issue has also been applied to the Iraq, Iran, China, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, etc… all are struggling to be independent from the United States (so stamped as the evil countries by her). For whom? Have the United States and the western governments really taken care of the Iraqis during, before and after the war?

Watch this, if not, one will be easily deceived by the operations of the U.S. Defense and State Departments. It is one of the issues to be warned by many.


Yonhap News
2010/01/03 11:56 KST
U.N. rights envoy on N. Korea due in Seoul: sources

SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- The United Nations' envoy on North Korean human rights plans to visit South Korea to meet with defectors from the North and relevant officials as part of a fact-finding mission to determine the latest conditions in the communist state, officials said Sunday.

Vitit Muntarbhorn, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on North Korean human rights, is scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Jan. 10 for a seven-day visit, diplomatic sources, who requested anonymity, said.

Muntarbhorn plans to visit Hanawon, a resettlement center in Seoul for North Korean defectors, where he will conduct interviews to obtain first-hand impressions on human rights conditions inside the North, according to officials.

He is also scheduled to meet with officials from the unification and foreign ministries in charge of Seoul's affairs with Pyongyang. The findings will be reflected in the U.N.'s upcoming report on the latest human rights conditions in North Korea.

Over 14,000 North Koreans have arrived in South Korea to escape famine and political oppression in their homeland since the 1950-53 Korean War. Seoul believes a total of 494 South Korean citizens, mostly fishermen, have been kidnapped and are being held by the North.

Muntarbhorn's visit comes on the heels of North Korea's detention of Robert Park, a 28-year-old American rights activist, who entered the country illegally to shed light on the reportedly grave human rights violations being committed in the reclusive state. Park is currently being detained by the North Korean government.

The rapporteur has regularly visited South Korea once or twice a year to collect information on North Korean human rights violations. The U.N. has reportedly sought permission from Pyongyang to allow the rapporteur to visit North Korea, though he has been consistently denied entry by the central government.

No accurate data on the North's human rights situation is available as the communist nation strictly controls traffic across its border. But the U.N. and global human rights groups say that citizens there have no freedom of speech and dissidents suffer torture and even execution without trial.

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