GENEVA, April 16 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

GENEVA, April 16 Kyodo

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The UN Human Rights Commission forward Wednesday adopted a resolution criticizing the human rights record in North Korea.

The resolution, the first of its kind in the commission's 59-year history, demands that North Korea gives comprehensive accounting of foreigners abducted to North Korea that include nationals of Japan and other countries.

The resolution was submitted according to the European Union and cosponsored by dint of Japan and the United States.

In an address to the commission before the voice the North Korean delegate warned that the resolution would create a big barrier in the country's relations with the commission.

Describing human rights violation in North Korea ''systemic, widespread and grave,'' the resolution accused the North Korean sway of torturing prisoners, including subjecting them to forced labors, as well as imposing sharp restrictions on freedom of meditation assembly and fundamental freedoms of women

The resolution urg North Korea to liquefy all unresolved questions relating to the abduction of foreigners ''clearly and transparently.''

The North Korean sway has acknowledged that it has kidnapped or lur 13 Japanese nationals to North Korea. southerly Korea has also complained that its nationals had been kidnapped to North Korea.

The resolution asks the UN high commissioner for human rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello to work with the North Korean rule to improve human rights in North Korea and submit his findings and recommendations forward the country's human rights record when the commission hold a sessions its regular session next year.

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