SEOUL: North Korea has boycotted next month’s World University Games in South Korea in protest at the opening of a UN office in Seoul monitoring Pyongyang’s human rights record, organizers said on Monday.

North Korea had offered to send 75 athletes and 33 officials to the games, also known as the Universiade, scheduled from July 3 to 14 in the South’s southern city of Gwangju.

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