North Korea's foreign minister has formally requested the United Nations to revoke a 2014 resolution against the communist nation's human rights record, arguing it was based on falsified information.
  

In a Jan. 2 letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong pointed out that Shin Dong-hyuk, a defector from the communist nation, admitted inaccuracies in his testimony to the U.N. investigators as to his experiences at prison camps there.
  

Shin authored a book titled "Escape from Camp 14" and provided information to the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the North's human rights abuse. He later said some of his accounts were incorrect, including the timing of his stay at the camp.
  

The COI's findings served as a key cause for the tough-worded resolution against Pyongyang last year for its human rights violation. It includes a recommendation for the Security Council to refer the North's leaders to the International Criminal Court.
  

"In such a case, it will be more evident that the U.N. arena where the impartiality and objectivity become the principles of activities was misused for the anti-DPRK (North Korea) 'human rights' racket and this will result in deeply undermining the confidence the U.N. enjoys," read Ri's letter, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
  

The minister said it's an insult to the U.N. to frame up the resolution based on lies and fabrications and asked the international body to take measures to make it null and void, added the KCNA. (Yonhap)