After decades in the political wilderness, North Korea has spent the past year in a flurry of diplomatic activity.
But talks with the US, China and South Korea have so far focused entirely on trade and denuclearisation. North Korea's woeful human rights record is one topic that is yet to come up – and it's likely to remain that way.
The UN says North Koreans live under "systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations".
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