South Korea advises China to ``protect the human rights of North Korean defectors'' = United Nations

The South Korean government advised China at the United Nations to protect North Korean defectors (those who fled the country from North Korea) and abide by international regulations.
Ambassador Yoon Seong-deok of the Korean Mission to Geneva announced on the 23rd (currently
local time), at the Universal Regular Review of Human Rights (UPR) held at the United Nations Office in Geneva, ``We recommend that appropriate protection be provided to defectors from overseas, including North Korean defectors.'' .
This conference is a system in which the United Nations Human Rights Council periodically reviews the human rights situation in the 193 United Nations member states every four years or every four years and six months, and finds proposals for improvement. China in 2009 and 2013
・This is the fourth time it has been examined following 2018. Ambassador Yun said, ``We welcome the steps China has taken to alleviate poverty in rural areas and promote the environmental rights of its citizens.''
We hope that the Chinese government will take steps to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." In response, Ambassador Chen Xu of the Chinese Mission to Geneva said, ``China's level of human rights protection is very high.''
``We have continued to strive for international human rights exchanges.'' In addition, Ban Kwang-hyuk, deputy ambassador to the North Korean mission to Geneva, said, ``We are committed to the politics chosen by the Chinese people.''
He highly praised the Chinese government for protecting the country's system and path to economic development," and defended China, saying, "Through modernization, China has achieved prosperity with equal human rights."