N. Korea denounces UN rights resolution as ‘political provocation’

North Korea on Wednesday denounced the United Nations Human Rights Council’s adoption of a resolution on its human rights record, calling it a “grave political provocation” against the country’s dignity and sovereignty. In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, a spokesperson for the North’s Foreign Ministry said Pyongyang “condemns and rejects in the strongest terms” the resolution, which it claimed targets its political system. The spokesperson argued that country-specific huma