NORTH Korea has surprised diplomats by presenting a draft UN resolution praising its record on human rights.

The country handed out copies of the document and invited other nations to submit comments by the end of the month, saying it had “nothing to hide.”

Pyongyang has sought to undermine a UN commission of inquiry report which accused it of numerous crimes against humanity, including running a vast prison camp network, sponsoring abductions of foreign nationals and even the systematic killing of mixed-race babies.