Shin Dong-hyuk adjusts his glasses during an interview with Reuters in Seoul February 10, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Files
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has launched an aggressive campaign seeking to discredit a U.N. report on human rights abuses in the country, following news that a prominent defector had recanted parts of his testimony.
Shin Dong-hyuk, subject of the bestselling book "Escape from Camp 14", is a well-known North Korean defector and gave testimony to a U.N. inquiry that has issued a damning indictment of the North's rights abuses.
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