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North Korea has been increasingly squeezed by international calls for improved human rights records as more and more nations have joined annual United Nations resolutions condemning the country’s human rights abuses, South Korean officials said.

The United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution last month that denounces North Korea’s worsening human rights violations, including its brutal treatment of political prisoners in the communist country.

This year’s resolution singled out political prison camps in North Korea, calling for the immediate shutdown of the gulags as well as the unconditional release of prisoners there. Torture and illegal detention are still rampant while public execution is still going on in the country due to the lack of the rule of law, it said.

It was the U.N.’s 9th annual resolution on North Korean human rights and the second unanimously consented on, according to Seoul’s Foreign Ministry.

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  North Korea is finally feeling the heat from an international outcry on human rights abuses, political prison camps, torture and illegal detention, United Nations resolutions