It was reported that North Korea may be showing a willingness...

It was reported that North Korea may be showing a willingness to improve its human rights conditions when it discussed the issue with a visiting British envoy. British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell said North Korean officials he had met on a recent trip acknowledged North Korea put a lower priority on human rights than the West.
The North's assessment of relative national priorities was considered a gross understatement of human rights conditions, which are generally believed to be the world's most deplorable.
"North Korea is probably acknowledging its weakness to the international community in an effort to improve it," South Korea's vice unification minister Rhee Bong-jo told reporters.
Rammell, who became the most senior British official to visit Pyongyang, said North Korean ministers told him about running prison camps for "re-education".
The United States said in its latest report on global human rights released on September 15 that North Korea rendered the harshest punishment for religious believers, including torture or even execution.