the inclusion by the security council in this agenda and by which to get involved in the dpr k human rights issue would go against the above goals and can only bring harm instead of benefits. thank you, mr. president. >> i would like to thank the representative of china for his statement. does any other member of the council wish to take the floor? i'm going to give the floor to the representative of australia. >> mr. president, thank you and thank you for convening this meeting. i will make only a few brief remarks. i would like to start by reading the letters of the group of 10 councilmembers addressed to you, mr. president, in your capacity as president of the council on five, december, 2014. the letter stated -- "we the undersigned members of the security council, australia, chile, france, jordan, lithuania, luxembourg, republic of korea, rwanda, united kingdom, and the united states are deeply concerned about the situation in the democratic people's republic of korea. we are particularly concerned by the scale and gravity of human rights violations detailed in the comprehensive

there has been a cooling of relationship between china and the dpr k.. i understand and our colleagues can elaborate but there is a fairly lively internal debates within china about whether it is more of a strategic asset or more of a strategic liability to china. china has been prepared to apply pressure against north korea but it's reluctant. it's been reluctant to use all of its leverage available to it in order to press the north koreans. it could end up destabilizing the regime in the north and lead to instability on the peninsula and in northeast asia. they have been engaged in a very active and diplomatic outreach effort. it's part of the kind of charm offensive by the pyongyang regime. it's released and sent a high-level delegation to meet with south korea and in china at the time of the games. they visited the european capitals into the delegation recently visited moscow and the discussions between north korea and japan although i don't expect anything useful to come out of that. what are the motivations for this diplomatic outreach. one of the

the report indicates that the situation of human rights in the dpr k has existed throughout the entire country off history. -- entire history of the country. if this is the case, we would ask why it has not garnered international attention since then. to conclude, we call for the countries within influence over thedpr k to clarify allegations of massive human rights violations against the stargate --e deep in the dpr k, and encouraging members to have free access to and to leave the country. along these lines, we call upon dprk to make a direct and with thealogue countries of the region. i now return to my role as president of the security council. the security council has .oncluded of this agendan item and the meaning is now adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> all this week, we have been showing you selections from 10 years of our queue and a program. join us later today at 7:00 eastern as we bring you a conversatio

the inclusion by the security council in this agenda and by which to get involved in the dpr k human rights issue would go against the above goals and can only bring harm instead of benefits. thank you, mr. president. >> i would like to thank the representative of china for his statement. does any other member of the council wish to take the floor? i'm going to give the floor to the representative of australia. >> mr. president, thank you and thank you for convening this meeting. i will make only a few brief remarks. i would like to start by reading the letters of the group of 10 councilmembers addressed to you, mr. president, in your capacity as president of the council on five, december, 2014. the letter stated -- "we the undersigned members of the security council, australia, chile, france, jordan, lithuania, luxembourg, republic of korea, rwanda, united kingdom, and the united states are deeply concerned about the situation in the democratic people's republic of korea. we are particularly concerned by the scale and gravity of human rights violations detailed in the comprehensive