Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday lauded South Korea's co-sponsorship of this year's U.N. resolution condemning human rights violations in North Korea.
Ban made the remarks in his keynote speech to an international conference on North Korean human rights held in Seoul, after the U.N. General Assembly's Third Committee adopted a resolution against North Korea's human rights abuses last week in New York.
A total of 61 countries co-sponsored the annually adopted resolution, including South Korea under the liberal Lee government, which has been making overtures to resume dialogue with North Korea.
The move marks a departure from the former liberal Moon Jae-in administration, which withheld its support for the resolution from 2019 to 2021.
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