Samantha Power, the United States United Nations Ambassador and President of the UN Security Council for December, addresses the security council on the situation in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, at UN headquarters in New York. The U.N. human rights chief has told the Security Council it is “essential” that the council refer North Korea’s bleak human rights situation to the International Criminal Court, a proposition that the reclusive country views with alarm. The meeting was the second time that the Security Council discussed the human rights situation in North Korea despite objections from China, …read more
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