China's Opposition to West's Focus on North Korea's Human Rights Abuses Raises Concerns.

The US and its Western allies highlighted the dire human rights situation and increasing repression in North Korea at a UN meeting, which China and Russia denounced as a politicized move likely to further escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula. China blocked the US from broadcasting the informal Security Council meeting globally on the internet, a decision criticized by the US Ambassador as an attempt to hide North Korea’s “atrocities from the world.”