By Julie Inglese
A U.N. panel presented findings this month indicating that potentially hundreds of officers in North Korea have committed crimes against
humanity, including: systematic torture, starvation, and killing of its people.
North Korea completely rejected the findings, saying they were
based on “lies and fabrications deliberately cooked up by hostile forces and
riff-raffs.”
The North’s formal rejection of the report came after the U.N. human rights chief urged world powers to refer the state to the International
Criminal Court. However, Eurasia Review explains that this referral is extremely unlikely because of “China’s
probable veto of any such move in the UN Security Council.”
Only time can tell if the report will impact the regime, but defectors
who fled the North, including prison camp survivors, expressed skepticism about a
resulting change.
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