U.N. committee adopts resolution on N. Korea's rights violations

U.N. committee adopts resolution on N. Korea's rights violations

Japan's top envoy to the United Nations, Motohide Yoshikawa, meets with reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 19, 2015, after the General Assembly's committee on human rights voted to pass a draft resolution denouncing severe human rights violations in North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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