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NORTH Korea has surprised diplomats by presenting a draft UN resolution praising its record on human rights.
The country handed out copies of the document and invited other nations to submit comments by the end of the month, saying it had “nothing to hide.”
Pyongyang has sought to undermine a UN commission of inquiry report which accused it of numerous crimes against humanity, including running a vast prison camp network, sponsoring abductions of foreign nationals and even the systematic killing of mixed-race babies.
North Korea refers to Koreans as “the cleanest race” and frequently attacks the South for allowing Korean blood to be polluted by mixed marriages.
But it has aggressively denied the commission’s allegations and is now calling for the UN to make an “unbiased reassessment of the human rights situation” — while simultaneously demanding “an end to the practice of calling into question the human rights situations of specific countries.”
Diplomats received the report in silence and no country has yet commented.
