Summary
- The U.N. Security Council will hold an official meeting on North Korean human rights issues for the first time in less than a year
- South Korea, as this month’s UNSC president, seeks to highlight the link between North Korea’s security challenge and its repressive political climate
- China and Russia, traditional partners of North Korea, are known to have opposed making human rights an official UNSC agenda item
- The meeting comes as Seoul and Washington stress the risks that systematic human rights violations in North Korea pose to international peace and security
