The United Nations experts investigating human rights conditions in North Korea outlined “shocking evidence” of widespread abuses and atrocities that required an international response.
The Panel’s chairman, Michael Donald Kirby, in a statement to the Human Rights Council, summarised that the Commission of Inquiry on prison camps, torture, starvation and international abductions by North Korean agents, exhibited large scale patterns of abuse that constituted to “systematic and gross human rights violations.”
Kirby further commented,
“What we have seen and heard so far – the specificity, detail and shocking character of the personal testimony, appears without doubt to demand follow up action by the world community.”
The North Korean’s mission’s counsellor to the Untied nations in Geneva, Kim-Yong-ho, responded to the panels calling the evidence used in the inquiry as ‘fabricated and invented’.
The panel of experts will submit their final report to the council in March.