North Korea has singled out Japan, criticizing Tokyo¡¯s leading role in crafting a U.N. resolution condemning human rights violations and the abductions of foreign nationals by the nuclear-armed country, amid its ongoing thaw with the outside world.
In a commentary published late Monday, the North¡¯s state-run Korean Central News Agency blasted ¡°dishonest forces including Japan¡± for ¡°working hard to cook up¡± the resolution as denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington continue.
¡°No one in the international community has ever given those countries a privilege to set the world ¡®human rights standard,¡¯ ¡± it said.
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