EU Will Present U.N. Resolution on NK Human Rights

As confirmed by an unnamed EU diplomat, via Kyodo news:

The European Union has decided to present a draft resolution that denounces North Korea’s poor human rights record, including its abductions of Japanese and other nationals, at the U.N. General Assembly, a European diplomat said Tuesday.

It will be the first time that North Korea has been named in such a resolution submitted to the assembly. The resolution is aimed at urging North Korea to follow similar resolutions adopted during the last three years by the U.N. Human Rights Commission, or the CHR, which is based in Geneva.

Obviously, attention and public pressure are good things, but they are not ends unto themselves. Let’s see how much further this goes.