The abridged version
If by abridged version of the State Department’s human rights report on North Korea you mean removing anything that suggests the regime still runs a gulag (via. ROK Drop)
WASHINGTON, March 5 (Yonhap) — The U.S. State Department is choosing its words carefully in preparing its annual report assessing human rights conditions in other countries, specifically North Korea, the focus of stalled nuclear disarmament talks, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Glyn Davies, principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asia and the Pacific, e-mailed Erica Barks-Ruggles, deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, on Friday asking for changes in the language on North Korea, according to the report.
If one were to count on these reports as the only, one would think North Korea’s human rights problem has been solved. Buy hey, anything for a resemblance of making progress.
