Human Rights Council against the National Politics of States: Some Remarks on the Case of North Korea

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International community has recently faced with some modern forms of challenges between application of national politics and respect to evolving rules of international law. In this situation many states, especially in the context of international human rights law choose to escape from international obligation in order to advance their national policy. North Korea's human rights record is among the worst in the world and has been widely condemned globally, especially by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the European Union and the United Nations. The recent declarations of the human rights council which clearly condemned the violation of human rights in North Korea and further repeated violations by this country could be proved the fact that still the human rights' values are as weak as being able to enforce the states to apply them.

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