Over 30 U.N. members rap North Korea over ongoing rights abuses

A group of 31 U.N. member states including the United States, Japan and South Korea criticized North Korea on Friday for neglecting its people's needs to pursue weapons development and persisting in alleged human rights abuses.In a joint statement, the members also urged Pyongyang to resolve the issue of people who were abducted from Japan and South Korea to North Korea.The United States, Japan and five European countries released a similar statement regarding North Korea last year, but a larger number of countries, including Ukraine and South Korea, backed the latest effort."By many report…READ FULL ARTICLE