North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has been warned that he could face
prosecution for crimes against humanity after a United Nations inquiry
accused him of some of the worst human rights abuses since the Second World
War.
In some of the harshest criticism ever unleashed by the international
community against the Pyongyang regime, a UN panel branded it “a shock to
the conscience of humanity”.
Michael Kirby, a retired Australian judge who has spent nearly a year taking
testimony from victims of the regime, said much of it reminded him of
atrocities perpetrated by Nazi Germany and Pol Pot’s Cambodia.
Yesterday his team published a 374-page report detailing allegations of
murder, torture, rape, abductions, enslavement, and starvation, describing
North Korea as a dictatorship “that does not have any parallel in the
contemporary world”.
In a bid to put pressure on Kim Jong-un, 31, Mr Kirby has taken the unusual
step of writing to the North Korean leader to warn him that both he and
hundreds of his henchmen could one day face prosecution.
Source: The Telegraph
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