GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday rejected allegations by the top U.N. human rights official that serious and widespread violations persisted in the country despite its diplomatic opening.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a wide-ranging speech on Monday that remote monitoring by his office found "little change in the country's longstanding, grave and systematic violations of human rights".
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