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North Korea atrocities exposed, but experts sceptical on international action

Michael Kirby, chairman of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea, said findings in the report carried echoes of the Nazi Holocaust. Photo: EPA

Defectors and activists welcomed on Tuesday a UN-mandated inquiry’s searing indictment of gross human rights abuses in North Korea, but analysts questioned the international community’s ability to act on its recommendations.

Pyongyang’s grim rights record has already been well documented by specialist monitors. But the size, breadth and detail of the report compiled by the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on North Korea – and the UN imprimatur it carries – set it apart.