North Korea Takes UN Hypocrisy to New Heights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Visitors pay homage to the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il ahead of the 27th anniversary of the death of Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 7, 2021. © 2021 Cha Song Ho/AP Photo Hypocrisy is commonplace at the United Nations. Delegates routinely stand at UN podiums and blame everyone and everything but their own governments for their countries’ problems. North Korea took this practice to new level on Tuesday at a High Level Political Forum on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. North Korea is “a people centered socialist state”…

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