China and Russia on Thursday failed to prevent the United States from bringing the issue of North Korean human rights before the UN Security Council.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday emphasized the need to bring international attention to the human rights situation in North Korea.

A press released quoted him as saying that “the DPRK’s deplorable human rights violations such as those involving extrajudicial killings, disappearances, arbitrary arrest, rape and other forms of sexual violence, forced labor, forced abortions, torture and the detention of an estimated 80,000-120,000 political prisoners in a network of political prison camps” needed