The UN’s special investigator on human rights in North Korea has lambasted China for not putting more pressure on Pyongyang, while applauding the coming of a new field office in Seoul.

“How are we going to persuade China that they are in a position to do this?” Marzuki Darusman said, speaking to reporters in Geneva.

Darusman compared China’s stance on the North to that of the United States toward Israel, in terms of its “denial” of influence.

“They don’t accept that they have any kind of influence on the North Koreans,” he said.

Darusman has served in this role for