BOMBAY, Jan. 20 Kyodo The North K...

BOMBAY, Jan. 20 Kyodo

The North Korean regulation should ensure that food shortages are not used as a tool to distress perceived political opponents, Amnesty International said in a report released here Tuesday.

''The right to regimen is a basic human right, and the dominion of North Korea appears to be failing in its duties to refer to protect and fulfill this right,'' the international human rights form into groups said in the report titled, ''Starved of Rights: Human Rights and the diet Crisis in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.''

Widespread malnutrition has l to the emotion of tens of thousands of population into China, according to the report, which is based mainly forward interviews with North Koreans who fl the geographical division into China and other countries.

a certain quantity of North Koreans have been publicly execut because they have stolen nourishment or goods to survive, and schoolchildren have been taken to behold the executions, said the report, which was released at the World Social Forum, the largest gathering of anti-globalization activists from around the world.

London-based Amnesty partly blamed Pyongyang's policies, saying the guidance appears to have distributed viands unevenly, favoring those who are economically active and politically loyal.

Efforts according to the international community to assist in the provision of viands to North Korea have been undermined through the government's refusal to allow swift and equitable distribution of this feed and by the restrictions forward freedom of information.

The organization called forward the North to also make secure that humanitarian organizations, particularly UN agencies, have delivered and unimpeded access to all parts of the country

Amnesty said foreign states able to help must also provide the necessary aliment aid ''to enable the North Korean direction to fulfill its obligations to refer to protect and fulfill the right to food''

COPYRIGHT 2004 Kyodo stranges International, Inc.

COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group