GENEVA: A United Nations human rights expert has voiced alarm at what he called “widespread food shortages and malnutrition” in North Korea, which have been exacerbated by a nearly five-month border closure with China along with measures against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tomas Ojea Quintana, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, urged the UN Security Council yesterday to “reconsider sanctions” on the isolated country so as to ensure the flow of food supplies.
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