This blog has earlier referred to the item of news on North Korea in the February issue of the free sheet 'Alive'.
Today's Guardian also has a story on North Korea's leadership. The free sheet 'Alive' has over the years regularly criticised various United Nations bodies.
Channel 4 carried a story on North Korea this evening. The UN report speaks of crimes against humanity, including rape. Another instance of a woman forced to drown her own baby.
Channel 4 carried a story on North Korea this evening. The UN report speaks of crimes against humanity, including rape. Another instance of a woman forced to drown her own baby.
The free sheet 'Alive' heading on its story is 'Korea story exposes media gullibility.
The UN inquiry chairman writes to Kim Jong-un warning he could face trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity
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Kim Jong-un at a national agriculture competition. Photograph: KCNA/Reuters
North Korea's leadership is committing systematic and appalling human rights abuses against its own citizens on a scale unparalleled in the modern world, crimes against humanity with strong resemblances to those committed by the Nazis, a United Nations inquiry has concluded.
The UN's commission on human rights in North Korea, which gathered evidence for almost a year, including often harrowing testimony at public hearings worldwide, said there was compelling evidence of torture, execution and arbitrary imprisonment, deliberate starvation and an almost complete lack of free thought and belief.
The chair of the three-strong panel set up by the UN commissioner on human rights has personally written to North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, to warn that he could face trial at the international criminal court (ICC) for his personal culpability as head of state and leader of the military.
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