HUMAN RIGHTS

HUMAN rights campaigners who had hoped the appalling abuses committed in the isolated country would be addressed were largely disappointed.

Asked whether they talked about the despot’s record, which includes political imprisonment, torture as well as the apparent assassination of his brother and execution of his uncle, Trump said that “it was discussed”.

He thought opening relations has “helped” the estimated 120,000 people in gulags. In 2014, the United Nations found Kim’s people were subject to “murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds.”