US to North Korea: free political prisoners

The United States on Thursday called on North Korea to close its political prison camps and release all the tens of thousands of detainees.

Mark Cassayre who was speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, also urged North Korean authorities to allow humanitarian organizations access to people in need. and that their employees can move freely.

The authorities must authorize the possession of religious texts, he added.

"The human rights situation in North Korea is deplorable and has no equivalent in the modern world," said Mark Cassayre to the Council, which reviews the situation in the DPRK as every five years.

In a very noticed report published in 2014, the UN investigators estimated the number of political prisoners held in camps at between 80,000 and 120,000 people..........