North Korea has rejected the findings on a UN HRC Commission of Inquiry, which found that crimes against humanity had been committed and called for criminal investigations to be initiated.
The North Korean foreign ministry stated that the report was,
The North Korean foreign ministry stated that the report was,
“peppered with sheer lies and fabrications deliberately cooked up by hostile forces and riff-raffs such as some ‘elements with ambiguous identities who defected from the north’, criminals who escaped from it after committing crimes against the country to earn money”.It proceeded to warn against any criminal investigations, stating it was
“an extremely dangerous politically motivated provocation aimed to tarnish the image of the dignified DPRK and ramp up pressure on it in a bid to bring down its social system”.Read more from the Guardian here.