N. Korea Is Target of U.N. Warning
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GENEVA — In a strong signal to North Korea, a United Nations rights committee said Thursday that no country can pull out of a key international treaty guaranteeing citizens civil and political rights.
U.N. sources said the aim was twofold: to put on record that 23 million North Koreans are still under the protection of the landmark pact and to warn other states not to follow suit.
A Pyongyang diplomat announced in August that North Korea was pulling out of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights--the first state to announce its withdrawal.
But the U.N. Human Rights Committee said in a statement: “The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights does not contain any provision regarding its termination and does not provide for denunciation or withdrawal.”
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