BEIJING: China on Tuesday urged the world community not to provoke tensions by “politicizing” human rights in North Korea, which a United Nations inquiry has compared to those in Nazi Germany and under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge.

“We oppose politicizing the human rights issue or interfering in others’ internal affairs on the pretext of the human rights issue,” foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular briefing.

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