North Korea said Friday it will not send a representative to a U.N. Security Council meeting next week to discuss the country's human rights...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
record and calls to refer Pyongyang to the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
The 15-member council will on Monday hold its the first-ever meeting on the situation in North Korea, despite objections from China -- Pyongyang's key ally -- and Russia.
| Young Kim -- Pudgy to his friends, if he had any -- is just throwing attitude in all directions these days. Can we possibly hope for a quick assassination? |
| A violent overthrow and a miserable, shrieking death followed by a division of North Korea by China and the South would be acceptable... |
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
"We will not attend," he told Agence La Belle France-Presse.
Under U.N. procedures, North Korea can send a representative to the meeting of the top UN body and diplomats had said they were hoping for a face-to-face discussion with Pyongyang's envoy.
| Offer them lunch... |
Two top U.N. officials for political affairs and human rights will brief the council, but no decision on a referral to the ICC will be taken on Monday.
Ten of the 15 council members pushed for North Korea to be put on the agenda, but Russia and China argued that rights concerns should be put before the U.N. Human Rights Council and not the Security Council.
The talks will focus mainly on rights violations but council members could raise U.S. accusations that North Korea staged a cyber attack on Sony pictures that exposed embarrassing emails and scuttled the release of a movie.
Up until now, the council had zeroed in on North Korea's nuclear program as a threat to international peace, but the scope has widened to human rights following the release of a U.N. commission of inquiry report.
The year-long inquiry heard testimony from North Korean exiles and documented a vast network of harsh prison camps holding up to 120,000 people along with cases of torture, summary executions and rape.