The Two-Way 4:12 am Mon February 17, 2014  U.N. Report Details
North Korea's 'Crimes Against Humanity'  Credit Ed Jones /
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10:14 am  "Systematic, widespread and gross human rights
violations have been and are being committed" by the leaders of
North Korea against their own people, the U.N.'s Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights declared Monday in a report
that goes on to accuse that nation's communist regime of "crimes
against humanity."  According to U.N. investigators, "the
gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state
that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world." They
conclude, for example, that "hundreds of thousands of political
prisoners have perished" in prison camps over the past five
decades.  The High Commissioner's report calls on the U.N.
Security Council to "refer the situation in the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea to the International Criminal Court."
"The United Nations must ensure th