A 400-page
United Nation Commission of Inquiry report released in 2014 declared the "gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world." North Korea declared the U.N. report a "fabrication."
Here are the crimes the U.N. commission claimed it found:
- Extermination
- Murder
- Enslavement
- Torture
- Imprisonment
- Rape
- Forced abortions
- Other sexual violence
- Persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds
- The "forcible transfer of populations"
- The "enforced disappearance of persons and the inhuman act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation"
Moreover, the report placed responsibility for the existence of those alleged abuses squarely with the state.
As President Trump meets with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, human rights advocates hope he will urge more than just denuclearization
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