Both Koreas Exchange Words Over Human Rights Office

South and North Korea have exchanged words at a United Nations meeting over the establishment of a U.N. human rights field office in the South. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights plans to open a field office in Seoul as early as this month to monitor human rights in North Korea. The move follows a recommendation by a U.N. Commission of Inquiry tasked with probing human rights in the North. Early last year, the panel released a damning report on the North’s human...

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