Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to address human rights when he meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the upcoming Singapore summit. "We'll bring it up," the President told reporters before departing for the G7 Summit. North Korea has perpetuated human rights abuses for decades, according to watchdog agencies, human rights groups and the US government. A 2014 report from a United Nations Human Rights Council commission found the authoritarian regime had committed "systemic, widespread and gross human rights violations" including "arbitrary detention, torture, executions and enforced disappearance to political prison camps, violations of the freedoms of thought, expression and religion, (and) discrimination on the basis of State-assigned social class, gender, and disability." The UN commission concluded that crimes against humanity had been committed by North Korean officials.

Source: CNN June 08, 2018 14:33 UTC