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'Abundant evidence' of crimes against humanity in North Korea, panel says
[CNN] A stunning catalog of torture and the widespread abuse of even the weakest of  North Koreans reveal a portrait of a brutal state "that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world," a United Nations...an idea whose time has gone... panel reported Monday. Golly. It's only taken 62 years or so. North Korean leaders employ murder, torture, slavery, sexual violence, mass starvation and other abuses as tools to prop up the state and terrorize "the population into submission," the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea said in its report. The commission traced the abuses directly to the highest levels of the North Korean government while simultaneously blaming world leaders for sitting on their hands amid untold agony. "The suffering and tears of the people of North Korea demand action," commission Chairman Michael Kirby told news hounds. Posted by: Fred 2014-02-18 |
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