North Korea rejects UN human rights report as 'lies and fabrications'


  • World
  • Saturday, 22 Feb 2014

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Saturday rejected the findings of a U.N. panel, which accused the state of crimes against humanity that evoked Nazi-era atrocities, saying they were based on "lies and fabrications deliberately cooked up by hostile forces and riff-raffs."

North Korean security chiefs and even Kim Jong Un should face international prosecution for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings of its people, U.N. investigators said on Monday in a report.

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