South Korea’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs criticized North Korea’s Foreign Minister for his rebuttal to the UN’s recent resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday.

After North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong called for cancellation of the “anti-North Korean” human rights resolutions, Cho Tae-yul, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, refuted Ri’s argument and called the DPRK diplomat “pathetic”.

“I feel a deep sympathy for him as a diplomat and a member of the same people,” Cho said. “It’s pathetic that he, who knows better than anyone else about