 NEW YORK -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Tuesday for greater international attention to North Korea's human rights violations, saying that remaining silent about the problem would be the "greatest abuse of all."
| Champ and Kerry both made statements in the last day with which I agree? I feel faint, I'd best go lie down... |
Kerry made the appeal during a ministerial meeting he hosted in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly while urging Pyongyang to shut down all political prison camps across the communist nation, which he described as an "evil system."
"We simply cannot be blind to these egregious affronts to human nature and we cannot accept it, and silence would be the greatest abuse of all," Kerry said.
| Good words, Jahwn, though if good words would get things done you, Champ and the UN would be effective... |
Kerry stressed that the U.N. Commission of Inquiry's report on the problem has lifted the veil on the issue, referring to a report released in February that North Korean leaders are responsible for "widespread, systematic and gross" violations of human rights. |
