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 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A Nobel prize-winning Holocaust survivor, an anti-Soviet dissident and a former European leader called Sunday for U.N. Security Council action on North Korea over its "egregious" human rights record.
Elie Wiesel, who survived the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and later won a Nobel peace prize, commissioned a 123-page report detailing North Korean atrocities with dissident playwright turned Czech President Vaclav Havel and a former prime minister of Norway, Kjell Magne Bondevik.
In the report, the three said the dispute over the country's nuclear program should not eclipse deadly political repression there, but rather the council should open another path to influence North Korea by taking on leader Kim Jong Il's regime over its treatment of the country's 23 million people.
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