The international community's exclusive focus on the North Korean nuclear threat is a mistake, a British legislator said Wednesday, charging that the issue has overshadowed the country's human rights violations.
The communist nation has long been accused of abusing its citizens _ including torture and public executions _ but denies engaging in such practices.
"We have made a mistake in the last 10 years in being so obsessed by the nuclear question that we have forgotten the human rights issues," Lord David Alton _ who has chaired a committee in the House of Lords on North Korea since 2004 _ told a human rights symposium at South Korea's National …
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