UNITED NATIONS. UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCERNED ABOUT N. KOREA RIGHTS RECORD

the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution expressing serious concern about the precarious human rights and humanitarian situation in North Korea, but South Korea abstained and China voted against. The vote was 84 in favor, 22 against with 62 abstentions.
The assembly expressed "serious concern at continuing reports of systemic, widespread and grave violations of human rights", including torture, public executions, imposition of the death penalty for political reasons and the extensive use of forced labor". The vote was the first on North Korean human rights abuses by the General Assembly, although similar resolutions have been passed at the UN Commission on Human Rights since 2003.