U.N. urged to probe North Korean leaders' role in abuses

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea's leaders are likely to be the target of a U.N. investigation into their personal responsibility for rapes, torture, executions, arbitrary arrests and abductions, following an expert report published on Tuesday.

The report by Marzuki Darusman, an Indonesian lawyer who is the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, said North Korea's "grave, systematic and widespread" human rights violations ought to be laid bare before the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. General Assembly.