North Korean diplomats cause chaos at UN event on rights
Source: AP-Excite
By CARA ANNA
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.S.-organized event on North Korea's human rights briefly turned into chaos at the U.N. on Thursday as North Korean diplomats insisted on reading a statement of protest, amid shouts from defectors, and then stormed out.
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power, tried to quiet the diplomats at the event that featured more than 20 defectors. She called North Korea's statements "totally self-discrediting."
The North Korean diplomats did not comment as they left the chamber after diplomat Ri Song Chol read out a statement in protest of the event, even as North Korean defectors stood and shouted in their faces.
Nuclear-armed North Korea has been on the defensive ever since a groundbreaking U.N. commission of inquiry detailed vast rights abuses there. North Korea has repeatedly referred to defectors who cooperated in the inquiry "human scum."
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A North Korean defector, left, yells to try and drown out a statement being read by North Korean diplomats, right, during a panel on North Korean human rights abuses, at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, April 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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