Diplomat: US Committed to Ending Abuses in N Korea

A senior U.S. official said the United States is dedicated to improving human rights conditions in North Korea. Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said in a recent meeting with North Korean defectors at U.N. headquarters in New York that "President [Barack] Obama, I, and his entire administration are committed to doing everything we can to end the suffering that we know is occurring in your country.” The comments came amid heightened tensions between...

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