北朝鮮「国際平和脅かす」　人権侵害、３１カ国が非難声明―安保理

　【ニューヨーク時事】国連安保理は９日、北朝鮮の人権問題を巡り非公式に協議した。協議前には、日米韓など３１カ国が共同声明を発表。日本人拉致問題を含む北朝鮮による人権侵害が「国際平和と安全を脅かしている」と訴えた。
　声明は、北朝鮮では「市民が経済的に困窮し、栄養失調に苦しむ」一方で、兵器開発に資源が流用されていると指摘。日韓の拉致被害者など、北朝鮮による人権侵害は他国にも及んでいるとして「懸念」を表明した。拉致被害者の即時帰国など問題の解決を「強く促す」とも明記した。（2022/12/10-07:53）

Thirty-one countries including Japan, the United States and South Korea on Friday issued a joint statement denouncing human rights abuses in North Korea such as its abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago.
   The North Korean regime's ongoing human rights violations are "inextricably linked with the country's unlawful and destabilizing weapons program," said the statement, which was adopted before the U.N. Security Council had informal talks the same day on the human rights situation in the reclusive nation.
   The country's repressive political climate allows a coercive system of governance that diverts resources to weapons development "even as North Korean citizens suffer from severe economic hardship and malfunction," it said, adding, "These human rights violations threaten international peace and security."
   Expressing "concern" over "abductions and enforced disappearances" of Japanese and South Korean citizens, and other nationals "who are kept against their will" in North Korea, the 31 countries said "we strongly urge" North Korea to "resolve all outstanding issues with detainees, abductees and disappeared, and immediately return them to their homes."
   Since 2014, the U.N. Security Council has been discussing human rights issues in North Korea every year except 2018 and 2019, when the administration of then U.S. President Donald Trump sought to make progress in talks with North Korea on the denuclearization of the East Asian nation. This year's talks were held at the request of the United States and Albania.