GENEVA (AP) — After a testy exchange between the United States and North Korea, a special investigator won approval Friday to keep investigating suspected crimes against humanity and other abuses in the reclusive Asian nation.

The U.N.’s 47-nation Human Rights Council approved the renewal in a resolution on North Korea’s human rights that passed by a vote of 30-6, with 11 abstentions. China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Venezuela and Vietnam voted against it. The vote allows U.N. special rapporteur Marzuki Darusman of Indonesia to pick up where an international commission left off last month.