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Will Trump Raise North Korea's Human Rights Abuses At Summit With Kim Jong Un?

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President Trump will meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un next week in Singapore, in an effort to resolve the nuclear threat posed by Pyongyang. But in the lead-up to that summit, the threat the totalitarian regime poses to its 25 million people has not been addressed. It didn't come up either at the inter-Korean summits or during President Trump's White House meeting last week with Kim's lieutenant, Kim Yong Chol. "We did not talk about human rights, no," Trump told reporters after that meeting. Human rights experts worry that the way North Korea treats its citizens is getting sidelined in the effort to secure a nuclear deal. "At some point, whether [in] the next summit or other summits to come or meetings, it is very important that human rights are raised," Tomás Ojea Quintana, the United Nations' special rapporteur on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, told reporters in Geneva Thursday. "Otherwise, first it will be a problem in terms of building a sustainable agreement

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