US slams North Korea for using repression to build nuclear weapons

A North Korean flag flutters at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, July 19, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The United States slammed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the United Nations on Thursday for using “repression and cruelty” and totalitarian rule to unlawfully develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. “We cannot have peace without human rights,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the Security…