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☆ US Special Envoy on North Korea to Visit Tokyo, Seoul
  + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +1 min
TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. special envoy on North Korean human rights issues, Julie Turner, will travel to Tokyo and Seoul from Monday, the State Department said. On the visit through Feb. 22, Turner will meet with government officials, activists and North Korean defectors, the department said in a news release on its website on Friday. "Special Envoy Turner's trip will underscore the U.S. commitment to promoting human rights in North Korea, increasing access to uncensored information within the closed country, and empowering survivor voices advocating for concrete change," the release said. President Joe Biden, however, had vowed on taking office that human rights would be at the centre of his foreign policy. (Reporting by Kevin Buckland in Tokyo; Editing by William Mallard and Tom Hogue)
Persons: Julie Turner, Turner, Joe Biden, Kevin Buckland, William Mallard, Tom Hogue Organizations: U.S, State Department, North Korean, State Department's Office, East, of Democracy, Human Rights, Labor Locations: TOKYO, North, Tokyo, Seoul, North Korea, United States, Pyongyang, East Asia
☆ North Korea criticises US human rights envoy as 'wicked, mudslinging'
  + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Hyonhee Shin | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Turner, former director of the State Department's Office of East Asia and the Pacific in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, was nominated by President Joe Biden to the position in January and confirmed last week by the Senate. An unnamed spokesperson of what North Korea's state media called the Association for Human Rights Studies said Turner had earned "notoriety" for "mudslinging" over human rights issues and "spitting out coarse invective" against the country. The appointment of "such a wicked woman" highlights Washington's hostile policy toward Pyongyang, it said, warning of "retaliatory action of justice." In a separate dispatch, KCNA accused France of escalating tension by sending fighter jets for joint air drills with South Korea. Reporting by Hyonhee Shin in Seoul Editing by Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Tae, Julie Turner, Turner, Joe Biden, KCNA, Ryu Gyong, Hyonhee Shin, Matthew Lewis Organizations: U.S, State Department's Office, East, of Democracy, Human Rights, Labor, Senate, Association for Human Rights Studies, Thomson Locations: Gijungdong, SEOUL, North Korea, East Asia, North, Pyongyang, France, South Korea, U.N, Seoul
☆ Biden nominates North Korea human rights envoy, first since 2017
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Josh Smith | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
She speaks Korean and has previously worked on North Korean human rights as a special assistant in the envoy's office, the statement said. The special envoy position - and a similar one in South Korea - had become controversial as preceding administrations tried to bring North Korea to the negotiating table. South Korea's ambassador on North Korean human rights expressed disappointment last year that Biden's administration had yet to appoint an envoy for the issue at the time. North Korea has repeatedly rejected accusations of human rights abuses and blames sanctions for a dire humanitarian situation. A landmark 2014 U.N. report on North Korean human rights concluded that North Korean security chiefs - and possibly leader Kim Jong Un himself - should face justice for overseeing a state-controlled system of Nazi-style atrocities.
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