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North Korea threatens more nuclear tests
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
U.N. committee favors draft resolution referring N. Korea to Intl. Criminal Court
The vote is merely a recommendation
The authority to refer a country to the ICC lies only with the U.N. Security Council
(CNN) -- North Korea responded harshly to a United Nations draft resolution referring the reclusive regime to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, promising that such a move would prompt it to conduct more nuclear tests.
A U.N. General Assembly committee Tuesday voted in favor of the draft resolution condemning the country's human rights record and calling for "targeted sanctions."
Before the vote, Choe Myong Nam, North Korea's representative at the U.N., issued a familiar warning, saying that seeking to punish the country on human rights "is compelling us not to refrain any further from conducting nuclear tests."
"The reality is the need for us to maintain powerful state capability in order to defend our people's human rights," he said. "The outrageous and unreasonable human rights campaign staged by the United States and it followers in their attempts to eliminate the state and social system of the (North Korea) is compelling us not to refrain any further from conducting nuclear tests."
The 111-19 vote, with 55 abstentions, is merely a recommendation. The General Assembly does not have the power to refer the regime or its leader, Kim Jong Un, to the ICC.
The non-binding measure will come up for a vote by the General Assembly in December.
The authority to refer a country to the ICC lies only with the U.N. Security Council, a 15-member body charged with maintaining global security.
The five permanent members at the core of the Security Council, including China and Russia, wield veto powers.
Opponents of the resolution -- including China, Russia and Cuba -- said the measure was politically manipulated and would set a precedent for other nations to be targeted in the future.
The North Korean representative told the U.N. gathering Tuesday that the resolution "provoked confrontation" and "failed to reflect the reality on the ground."
China is likely to use its veto against the resolution. Chinese officials have repeatedly said efforts to send North Korea's leadership to the ICC "won't help improve a country's human rights condition." North Korea's longtime ally has never wavered in its support for Pyongyang.
North Korea's leaders have been accused of employing murder, torture, slavery, sexual violence and mass starvation to prop up the isolated regime and exercise total control over its citizens.
North Korea has repeatedly denied the existence of political camps or human rights abuses in the country, and has accused the United States and its allies of seeking to discredit and overthrow the North Korean leadership.
North Korea: 'We were forced to eat grass and soil'
In February, the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea published a 400-page report documenting widespread torture and abuse, and called for urgent action, including the referral of its findings to the ICC for possible prosecution.
Last month, U.S. military officials said they believe the North Koreans have the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on an intermediate or long-range missile. If true, it represents a significant increase in North Korea's quest for a long-range nuclear weapon.
Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, said he believes the North Koreans have the "capability" to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile, but stressed they have not tested any such device.
In April, North Korea announced that it wouldn't rule out "a new form of a nuclear test" to strengthen its nuclear deterrent capabilities. Experts have speculated that that could refer to the testing of a uranium bomb.
The regime in Pyongyang is known to have conducted three previous tests, all of them believed to be based on plutonium. The most recent one took place in February 2013.
By Ray Sanchez, CNN
November 19, 2014 -- Updated 1650 GMT (0050 HKT)
北朝鮮人権侵害 国連総会で処罰決議採択11月19日 10時04分 北朝鮮での深刻な人権侵害が国際法上の「人道に対する罪」に当たるとして、国際刑事裁判所に付託して責任者の処罰を求める日本などが提出した決議案が、国連総会の委員会で採決にかけられ、１１１か国の賛成を得て決議は採択されました。
国連総会の人権問題を扱う第３委員会では１８日、日本やＥＵ＝ヨーロッパ連合が提出した北朝鮮の人権状況を巡る決議案について協議が行われました。
決議案は、北朝鮮では最高指導部の方針を受け「人道に対する罪」に当たる深刻な人権侵害が行われているとして、責任者を処罰するため国連の安全保障理事会に対して、国際刑事裁判所に付託するよう求めました。
これに対して北朝鮮は、人権侵害の事実を強く否定したうえで、決議案は欧米などが人権問題を理由に北朝鮮に軍事的に介入し、体制の転覆を図るためのもので、決議が採択された場合は新たな核実験も辞さないと強く反発しました。
このあと行われた採決の結果、賛成が１１１か国、反対が中国やロシアなど１９か国、棄権がインドや南アフリカなど５５か国で、賛成多数で決議は採択されました。
これを受けて、日本の吉川元偉国連大使は記者団に対し、「決議が北朝鮮にとって受け入れ難い内容だったことから、これほど強い反応を招いたのだろう。１１１か国の支持を得たことを踏まえ、安保理での議論が進むよう、さらに多くの支持を集めていきたい」と述べ、各国に働きかけを続けていく姿勢を示しました。
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