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Julie Turner [Credit; Radio Free Asia]
Julie Turner, the U.S. particular envoy for North Korean human rights, will go to South Korea this week to satisfy with Seoul officers and attend occasions.
To mark the tenth anniversary of the discharge of a landmark UN report on the North’s rights abuses.
Ms Turner is scheduled to reach in Seoul on Wednesday, following a visit to Japan.
The U.S. State Division mentioned earlier that Ms Turner would make the two-nation go to from February 19 to 22.
International ministry spokesperson Lim Soo-suk mentioned in a briefing that they count on that Julie Turner’s go to will function an opportunity to ship a robust message from South Korea and the US.
The outreach to South Korea and the US was on the dedication to elevating consciousness and selling the North’s human rights conditions.
Ms Turner is predicted to attend an occasion hosted by the UN human rights workplace in Seoul.
The occasion was to have a good time the tenth anniversary of the discharge of the 2014 UN Fee of Inquiry (COI) report on the North’s human rights violations.
The COI report had accused North Korean officers of “systematic, widespread and gross” human rights violations.
The COI report is taken into account the primary doc produced by the UN that addressed, in depth, the problems associated to North Korean human rights violations.
Nevertheless, Ms Turner plans to go to entities offering assist and schooling to just lately arrived North Korean defectors.
(Yonhap/NAN)
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