Michael Kirby, Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on Human
Rights in North Korea, appealed to the U.N. Security Council to have North Korea
referred to the ICC, according to Reuters.
The U.N. inquiry’s final report determined that North Korean
security chiefs, and possibly even Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, should be
brought to the court for ordering systematic torture, starvation, and killings
“comparable to Nazi-era atrocities.”
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power agreed with
the inquiry’s recommendation. However, China has suggested that it would shield
North Korea from prosecution, telling the Human Rights Council in Geneva last
month that the inquiry had mad “unfounded accusations and recommendations
‘divorced from reality’.”
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