SEOUL, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A U.N. committee adopted a resolution condemning North Korea's human rights violations, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Thursday, with 61 co-sponsors including South Korea and the United States.
The draft resolution, introduced earlier this month to the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, "condemns in the strongest terms the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights in and by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, including those that may amount to crimes against humanity."
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the official name of North Korea.
The resolution calls on Pyongyang to "respect, protect and fulfill all human rights and fundamental freedoms" and to "immediately close the political prison camps and release all political prisoners unconditionally."
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