North Korea strongly protested the United Nations Human Rights Council's adoption of a North Korea human rights resolution.
A Spokesperson for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said through the Korean Central News Agency on the 2nd that it "brands the adoption of the North Korea human rights resolution as a grave political provocation against the dignity and sovereignty of our state and condemns and rejects it in the strongest terms."
The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the North Korea human rights resolution at its 61st session held on the 30th. The co-sponsoring countries of the resolution number 50, including Korea.
On this, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said, "A selective human rights mechanism targeting individual countries is a hostile act that runs counter to the spirit of the U.N. Charter, which stipulates the principles of sovereign equality and noninterference in internal affairs," adding, "The adoption of the North Korea human rights resolution, which has continued for more than 20 years, is a regrettable state of affairs on the U.N. human rights stage, which is becoming extremely tainted by politicization, selectivity, and double standards."
It also added, "The most pressing task before the U.N. Human Rights Council is the extraordinarily grave anti-humanitarian crimes being caused by the state terrorism and violations of sovereignty committed by hegemonic forces," and "to devise substantive measures to thoroughly investigate them and hold them accountable."