A U.S.-organized event on North Korea's human rights briefly turned Thursday, April 30, into chaos as North Korean diplomats insisted on reading a statement, amid shouts from defectors, and then stormed out of a United Nations chamber.

The U.S. ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, tried to quiet the North Korean diplomats at the event that features more than 20 defectors.

The North Korean diplomats did not comment as they left the chamber after reading out a statement in protest of the event, even as North Korean defectors stood and shouted in their faces.