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UN says N Korea expanding military programmes while people suffer

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, on screen, addresses the UN Security Council on North Korea [Angela Weiss/AFP]

North Korea has been accused of letting its people go hungry as it devotes ever more resources to developing its nuclear weapons programme and upgrading its military.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk told the United Nations Security Council at a special meeting on human rights in North Korea that the country’s people were experiencing increasingly severe political repression and worsening economic conditions.

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