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February 15, 2014
Call for international investigation into North Korean 'crimes against humanity'
Just how bad is Kim Jong Un's North Korea?
A UN investigation has revealed, exterminations, forced starvations and kidnapping among other crimes.
Associated Press:
A U.N. panel has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and will call for an international criminal investigation, The Associated Press has learned.
The report, to be released Monday, is the most authoritative account yet of rights violations by North Korean authorities, and it is bound to infuriate the country's unpredictable leader. But justice remains a distant prospect, not least as North Korea's ally, China, would be likely to block any referral to the International Criminal Court.
The commission, which conducted a yearlong investigation, has found evidence of an array of crimes, including "extermination," crimes against humanity against starving populations and a widespread campaign of abductions of individuals in South Korea and Japan.
Its report does not examine in...(Read Full Post)