Time for criminal charges against North Korea leadership - U.N.


  • World
  • Friday, 22 Jan 2016

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (2nd R) smiles during a visit to the newly built Youth Movement Museum in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang January 20, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea's leaders should face trial for crimes against humanity as there has been no improvement in human rights since a U.N. report detailed Nazi-style atrocities there two years ago, a United Nations investigator said on Friday.

The 2014 U.N. report concluded that North Korean security chiefs and possibly leader Kim Jong Un should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings.

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