Enough evidence to hold North Korea’s Kim accountable: United Nations official

The comments by Marzuki Darusman, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, were some of the strongest yet from UN officials about Kim’s responsibility for what they say are widespread abuses in the isolated country. A UN inquiry concluded in a Feb 17 report that North Korean security chiefs and possibly even Kim himself should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings that were comparable to Nazi-era atrocities.

The report ‘was able to point unequivocally to the responsibility and the culpability (for) these massive human rights violations to a single source of policy decision-making in the country,’ Darusman told a forum in Seoul. ‘And it’s only now that we are in the position to in fact directly put culpability on the supreme leader for these massive human rights violations.’