October 28, 2014
By Anna Fifield
TOKYO — North Korea (click here) is embarking on a full-scale campaign to neutralize allegations of human rights atrocities, apparently alarmed that snowballing international pressure will lead its top officials — including Kim Jong Un — to be charged with crimes against humanity.
By Anna Fifield
TOKYO — North Korea (click here) is embarking on a full-scale campaign to neutralize allegations of human rights atrocities, apparently alarmed that snowballing international pressure will lead its top officials — including Kim Jong Un — to be charged with crimes against humanity.
The campaign comes as a United Nations human rights officer is set to release a report Tuesday strongly urging the U.N. Security Council to refer the regime to the International Criminal Court.
Having long refused to even enter a room if human rights were on the agenda, North Korean diplomats and propagandists, with their trademark colorful language, are now actively engaging critics....
