The United Nations human rights agency opened Twitter and Facebook accounts Thursday for its envisioned field office in Seoul to monitor the North Korean situation.
“Hello world! We are the United Nations Human Rights Office (Seoul). Our office will be launched very soon,” read its Facebook message. “We will be doing a lot of work on monitoring and documentation of the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
A Twitter post also said the new office will open soon but did not provide an exact date.
Diplomatic sources said the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights will open the Seoul mission within this month.
Last year, a U.N. Commission of Inquiry, tasked with probing human rights in North Korea, recommended a set of measures, including the establishment of such a field-based structure, to address the problem in the communist nation. (Yonhap)
