Just another sign of how desperate the State Department is to go to any length to get North Korea to comply with the Agreed Framework 2.0:

The U.S. State Department is choosing its words carefully in preparing its annual report assessing human rights conditions in other countries, specifically North Korea, the focus of stalled nuclear disarmament talks, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Glyn Davies, principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asia and the Pacific, e-mailed Erica Barks-Ruggles, deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, on Friday asking for changes in the language on North Korea, according to the report.  [Yonhap]

It just continues to amaze me how these people at the State Department actually think North Korea is ever going to comply with the nuclear deal.  What deal has North Korea ever complied with?  North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons and will continue to play these on again, off again delay games to get as many concessions as possible from the United States.  Making changes in the human rights report on North Korea is just another concession given to North Korea that will ultimately prove fruitless.