The United States, its Western allies and experts shone a spotlight on the dire human rights situation and increasing repression in North Korea at a U.N. meeting Friday that China and Russia denounced as a politicized move likely to further escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula.
China blocked the U.S. from broadcasting the informal Security Council meeting globally on the internet, a decision criticized by U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield as an attempt to hide North Korea's "atrocities from the world."
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, North Korea has been isolated. The United Nations has no international staff in the country and Turpin said this "coincides with an increase in the repression of civil and political rights." She told the meeting that the limited information available shows the suffering of the North Korean people has increased and their already limited liberties have declined. Access to food, medicine and health care remains a priority concern, "people have frozen to death during the cold spells in January," and some didn't have money to heat their homes while others were forced to live on the streets because they sold their homes as a last resort.
Stepan Kuzmenkov, a senior counsellor at Russia's U.N. Mission, echoed China's opposition to having the Security Council discuss human rights and said there were no grounds for convening the meeting "which has a clear anti-North Korean bent."
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