UN Publishes Environmental Report on North Korea
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The first report on environmental conditions in North Korea such as the quality of water, air, forest, soil, and diversity of wildlife has been published.
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North Korea continues to violate human  rights systematically by torturing, publicly prosecuting and  oppressing its citizens, a United Nations envoy for human  rights in the communist state said on Friday. "There are many  grave negative situations," Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special  rapporteur, told reporters in Tokyo.
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North Korea has made another strong statement about its nuclear capability. At the United Nations on Monday, a North Korean minister said his country had made arms from reprocessed nuclear fuel rods.
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The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.
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The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) has said it will help Iraq clean up the toxic pollution caused by a decade of conflict.
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has made the country one of the world&#39;s leading polluters, a long-delayed government report shows. up to 30 percent of the planet&#39;s animal and plant species.
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North Korea been meting out harsher punishment in recent years against citizens fleeing the country, a leading international human rights group said in a report released Tuesday.
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A U.N. agency will begin counting North Korea's population in October in its first census in the reclusive country in 15 years, a South Korean official said Monday.
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By Anonymous  A rising tide of sewage is threatening the health and wealth of far too many of the world's seas and oceans, says a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with serious environmental problems that have depleted the countryâs forests, contaminated water supplies and polluted the air, the United Nationsâ top environmental official has said.
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BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday it had verified that North Korea had closed all five of its major nuclear facilities, a milestone in efforts to get the country to give up its nuclear weapons programs.
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North Korea continues to violate human rights systematically by torturing, publicly prosecuting and oppressing its citizens, a United Nations envoy for human rights in the communist state said on Friday. "There are many grave negative situations," Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special rapporteur, told reporters in Tokyo.
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ISN Security Watch (12/11/04) - The UNâs nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), charged South Korea on Thursday with violating international nuclear safeguards, while Seoul announced it was building the first of the three
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Aug. 27, 2004 - NAIROBI, Kenya Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with severe environmental problems that have depleted the country&#39;s forests, contaminated water supplies and polluted the
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Text of report in English by South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo website on 18 December  Radio broadcasts produced by college students here will be aired in North Korea.
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The suspension of United Nations Development Program (UNDP) operations in North Korea will not affect the work of other UN agencies there, a UNDP spokesman said here Monday.
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SEOUL The forests in North Korea are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and the country&#39;s reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said on Friday in its first report on the