The recent addition of North Korea to the World Health Organization (WHO) executive board has sparked a wave of criticism.
Other countries joining the executive board are Australia, Barbados, Cameroon, Comoros, Lesotho, Qatar, Switzerland, Togo and Ukraine.
“As one of the world’s worst violators of human rights at war with its own population, North Korea is clearly an enemy of public health at home and abroad,” Jamie Metzl, the founder and chair of OneShared.World and a former member of the WHO expert advisory committee on human genome editing, told Newsweek. “But because public health is global and we are all connected in our interdependent world, the WHO is probably right to err on the side on inclusion.”
“BREAKING: North Korea, a regime that starves its own people, was just elected to the @WHO Executive Board. No joke,” international human rights lawyer Hillel Neuer tweeted on Wednesday.
But as indicated in a post to Truth Social this Friday, former President Donald Trump sees no problem with the addition of North Korea and sent his regards to North Korea’s dictator, while sharing a link to news of the event.
“Congratulations to Kim Jong Un!” Trump wrote.
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