UN Rights Probe: 'Unspeakable Atrocities' Occurring In North Korea

North Korea: UN Rights Probe Shows 'Unspeakable Atrocities' -- BBC

A UN rights investigation into North Korea has shown there is evidence of widespread violations by the state.

Those who survived North Korean prisons suffered "unspeakable atrocities", said the UN panel, who interviewed exiles and former prisoners.

A North Korean official in Geneva, where the findings were presented on Tuesday, denied the findings.

The North is frequently accused of rights violations, including torture, abductions and running prison camps.

The UN panel members of this landmark investigation into North Korea interviewed witnesses in Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo, Japan, last month.

The panel was set up to investigate "the systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights" in North Korea, the UN said in a previous statement.

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More News On The UN's Rights Probe Showing North Korean Inmates Being Starved And Tortured

North Korean inmates starved and tortured, abuse widespread: U.N. -- Reuters
UN Panel Urges International Action on North Korean Human Rights Abuses -- New York Times
UN investigators highlight 'gross atrocities' in North Korea -- Deutsche Welle
UN Investigators: “Unspeakable Atrocities” in North Korean Prison Camps -- Time
'Unspeakable atrocities' in North Korea camps, says UN -- Global Post
UN Investigators Accuse N. Korea of Widespread Rights Violations -- Voice of America
North Korea rejects U.N. rights report as political plot -- Reuters
UN: North Korea Won't Cooperate With Rights Probe -- ABC News/AP

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20,000 Feared Dead In North Korean Gulag

Prison Camp 22

20,000 North Koreans Have ‘Disappeared’ From Gulag -- Vancouver Sun/Daily Telegraph

Disease or starvation likely cause, according to report from human-rights group seeking inquiry

TOKYO — Tens of thousands of North Korean inmates of Camp No. 22, one of the regime’s most brutal labour colonies, have disappeared, according to a human rights group that is demanding an inquiry into their fate.

There are fears up to 20,000 may have been allowed to die of disease or starvation prior to to the closure of the camp at the end of last year.

The suspicion has emerged after a report by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea detailing the situation in penal colonies as Kim Jong Un consolidated his power after taking over from his father, Kim Jong Il who died in 2011. The Washington-based organization gleans information from defectors, including former guards and the occasional survivor of a prison camp, as well as examining satellite imagery.

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More News On Reports That 20,000 Are Feared Dead In One North Korean Gulag

'Several thousand' North Korean prisoners feared dead, human rights group says -- FOX News
20,000 North Koreans disappear from gulag: human rights group -- Sydney Morning Herald
REPORT: Up To 20,000 North Korean Prison Camp Inmates Have 'Disappeared' -- Business Insider/The Telegraph
North Korea’s death camps -- The Olympian
20,000 prisoners 'disappear' from North Korean camp -- ITV

WNU Editor: The full report from the HRNK is here.

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Life Is Hell In North Korea

Isolation: A satellite image shows a camp in Haengyong, North Korea, where prisoners are thought to be held by the tyrannical government

The Tyrant Who Forces Mothers To Drown Their Babies: Survivors Of Brutal North Korean Regime Reveal The Chilling Truth About The World's Most Horrific Torture Camps -- Daily Mail

* UN commission of inquiry in Seoul interviewing 30 defectors
* Witnesses include Shin Dong-hyuk, author of Escape From Camp 14
* Harrowing evidence of country's ‘political penal-labour colonies'
* Accounts of mass executions, torture and forced labour
* Starving prisoners - including children - resort to eating rats, lizards and insects

The young prisoner stood motionless in the office of the factory manager. Next to him stood the chief foreman and the floor foreman, who had reported him for his grave offence.

‘What were you thinking!?’ the manager screamed. ‘Do you want to die?’

Of course, he did not want to die — he was just 22 years old — but he knew, after many years in the brutal hell of North Korea’s Camp 14, that life was very cheap.

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My Comment: One day the complete picture of North Korea will be known to the world .... but for now we are getting these glimpses, and what those imposes are revealing is truly horrifying.

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