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In North Korea, desperate lack of food, and help the World Food Program (WFP) reaches only one third of the hungry - said UN special rapporteur on North Korea Vitit Muntarbhorn.


Muntarbhorn also appealed to the country's government to take immediate steps to improve the "wretched" state of human rights, inter alia, by withholding public executions and an end to prosecution of those who tried to asylum abroad and were returned to their country.

According to the rapporteur of over 8 million people are suffering in North Korea for lack of food. Muntarbhorn, who studied the situation in this country for nearly 6 years, but never allowed him to enter, presented on Thursday evening at the UN its annual report. Rapporteur appealed to the authorities of North Korea to ensure the personal freedoms of citizens by withdrawing from the system of surveillance, the introduction of an independent judiciary and government fraud prevention. North Korea's deputy ambassador to the UN Pak Tok Hun immediately rejected the report, calling it "politically motivated document, full of distortions, lies, inaccuracies and developed by hostile forces." Stressing that "the state of human rights in this country is disastrous," Muntarbhorn said that the DPRK, there are, inter alia, cases of prosecution of people who read books from South Korea for espionage and executions of individuals involved in the smuggling of people. - Although many representatives of the population lives in extreme poverty and suffer from constant shortages due to lack of food and other essential products, the country is endowed with abundant mineral deposits controlled by the authorities - he stressed. - It is all the more paradoxical that, according to reports of state of the economy improved slightly in the last year - he said. He remarked that all the extra money being spent on the military.

 
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