U.N. rights team will visit Asia for North Korea inquiry


  • World
  • Friday, 05 Jul 2013

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights investigators will go to South Korea and Japan next month to interview North Korean exiles about alleged crimes against humanity in the secretive state.

Michael Kirby, a former judge of Australia's top court and chairman of the panel, said the team would hold public hearings and interview witnesses on alleged rights violations, including kidnappings of foreign nationals, torture and a gulag system.

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