U.N. report: North Korea food shortages, human rights abuses worst in years – By Thomas Maresca (UPI) / March 18, 2022
SEOUL, March 18 (UPI) — Under prolonged COVID-19 border closures and a growing crackdown on citizens, North Korea is facing its worst food and human rights situation in years, according to a report released Friday by a United Nations investigator.
Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur on North Korean human rights, said in the report that conditions in the secretive state have deteriorated over the six years that he has held the position.
“The Special Rapporteur is gravely concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation under further isolation of the country, in particular the aggravation of the food crisis and stricter control of people’s freedoms,” Ojea Quintana wrote in the final report of his tenure, which will be presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.
