Drastic measures taken by North Korea to contain coronavirus have exacerbated human rights abuses and economic hardship for its citizens, including reports of starvation, a United Nations investigator says.
He urged North Korean authorities to ensure that the “negative consequences of prevention measures do not become disproportionately greater than the impact of the pandemic itself”. “There have been shortages of essential goods, medicines, agricultural inputs for farming and raw materials for state-owned factories,” he said, voicing concern that typhoons and floods last year could lead to a “serious food crisis”.
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